Posted on 09/18/2002 6:26:04 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Cal Skinner voluntarily walked into the "Past Marijuana Use Confessional" on Tuesday, but said not only did he not inhale--he didn't even know he was using pot until it was over.
In one of the most bizarre marijuana revelations yet, the former Republican state representative admitted to reporters that he unwittingly tried marijuana about 20 years ago when someone cooked up a batch of pot brownies for him as a birthday present and didn't tell him about the secret ingredient.
So did he inhale?
"I guess I swallowed," Skinner conceded. "I mean, I like brownies a lot. I probably ate two or three or four."
Skinner volunteered the information at an unrelated news conference a day after Democratic rival Rod Blagojevich, 45, admitted to reporters that he had smoked marijuana twice while in his late teens or early 20s but does not remember whether he inhaled. A spokesman for GOP nominee Jim Ryan said the attorney general has never smoked marijuana.
"If you ask me the marijuana question, I can give you the answer," Skinner said. "I have never smoked marijuana in my life."
Skinner, 60, a conservative from northwest suburban Crystal Lake, then recounted the tale of the tainted brownies, saying they were baked for him around 1980 by a free-lance artist who wanted to see whether he would turn into a party animal.
"She wanted to see what effect it would have on me, and it was real exciting," Skinner said.
"I fell asleep. I told her never to do it again," he said.
Skinner told reporters he does not share his new party's position that marijuana use should be decriminalized.
Asked if the brownie prankster should have been locked up, Skinner hesitated and said, "I don't know how to answer that question."
Skinner also confessed he was confused by all the discussion on talk radio Tuesday morning about whether Blagojevich had the "munchies" during his youthful experimentation with marijuana
"I just didn't have a clue what they were talking about," Skinner said.
But he got the concept quickly when a reporter explained it was slang for marijuana users' desire to stuff their faces with food after they get high.
"I have the munchies all the time," Skinner said. "It doesn't have to be triggered by marijuana."
I also like, and fully agree with AppyPappy's comment! Been there, done that.
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Then he wasn't eating the brownies right.
The process is (1)inhalation of hot brownies two minutes after they come out of the oven, followed by (2)drowning in milk.
Interesting. This is akin to a liberal Democrat rejecting abortion-on-demand. I wonder what the LP party faithful think about this heresy.
Will it matter to the "libertarians just want their dope" chorus?
I like that. These people can't agree on anything but to support their party.
Simplistic pap. It doesn't work that way. In the Netherlands, where possession and use of small quantities of pot are legal, there is still a healthy and vigorous criminal trade in the stuff (just as in Nevada where legal prostitution has not eliminated the illegal variety, but given it a boost). Moreover, drug barons have gotten stronger and more powerful and are using the general permissive atmosphere to insinuate and build a burgeoning trade in harder drugs.
Tax weed to make money? You merely encourage unlawful black-market weed sales that avoid the tax.
Let the doper's nose into the tent and before long he'll have his whole body in there. Then he'll invite his buddies in, too.
which is exactly why we should decriminalize and not tax the stuff.
A curious statement. I'm not sure I have heard of a libertarian argument supporting drug criminalization. Is this a position of political expedience? Or is there some justification for it within libertarian thought?
Its obvious to me that the world must be saved from the use of this evil weed.
You usually have better arguments than that, AP. Of course they can't seize your dorm room. It isn't really yours.
Good quality... for a girl.
Good quality... for a girl. ;^D
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