Wonder Weed or Devil Weed?

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[Dane]

During prohibition, hard liquor was more popular than beer; today, the reverse is true.

Not really, you will find that the favorite choice of winos(addicts) is not a good Chardonnay, but cheap and very high alcohol content wines such as MD20/20 or Thunderbird.

The same would happen with pot.

[Rifleman]

If you want to hear the best ever rendition of "One toke", search for Rainmakers + One + Toke. The Raimakers were (and still sort of are, they get together on occasion) a Kansas City based band from the '70's. Call 'em an Ozark Rock Midwestern band with a lead singer, Bob Walkenhorst, who is a real poet and artist.

[Zon]

During prohibition, hard liquor was more popular than beer; today, the reverse is true.

Not really, you will find that the favorite choice of winos(addicts) is not a good Chardonnay, but cheap and very high alcohol content wines such as MD20/20 or Thunderbird.

Winos (addicts) are a tiny sub-set of the whole population of alcohol consumers. That tiny segment is not representational of the much, much larger group as a whole. Why did you chose to use such a small segment to represent the much larger whole?

[ccmay]

You boost the Rainmakers on this forum and don't mention their song Government Cheese? For shame!

-ccm

[tubebender]

The dope grown here in Humboldt County flows more sap than Maple trees in Vermont in spring. Just passing by will make most people dizzy. They took 50,000 indoor plants this season and 20,000 outdoors. On Monday in one grow operation they took 2,000. Thats a lot of little feel good pills. And I will not work next to a pot head for well documented reasons.

[Osinski]

To my way of thinking, marijuana is less of a medical issue and more of a rights issue. I don't agree that the government should ban an herb such as mj from the personal use of its citizens, or spend our tax dollars financing the enforcement of this nonsense.

As a side note, an acquaintance controlled his schizophrenia with pot.

[NorthernRight]

RE: "One Toke Over the Line", by Brewer & Shipley...
Great guitar break and riffs by the late great Jerry Garcia.

[philman_36]

I just can't understand why anybody would be concerned that I smoke a bowl or two in the quiet of the evening.
I'm with you. I'd like to smoke a bowl or two in the evening too, but then there is always the possibility of a random urine sample or pre-employment screening so...maybe someday. IMO it's ultimately a control thing.
"Just do as you're told, we know what is good or bad for you. You're too stupid to know, so just do it."

[philman_36]

Sympathetic BUMP

[HP8753]

Cannabis was never banned because it was a "drug".
It was banned because a certain company developed a new synthetic fiber (nylon) and needed hemp fiber out of the picture,before it's new product could gain a foothold in the market place.

The first salvo of the attack was with the "Marihuana Tax act of 1937"
That was a attempt to price it out of the market,couple that with a Federal Drug Agency that needed a new "bad guy" to stem the hemorraging of it's budgets and importance,Resulted in an out right ban.

My bet is that "lots of Campaign Contributions" and Scare tactics concerning a certain minority group was smoking it and raping white girls helped push it through Congress

[barker]

a Kansas City based band from the '70's.

I'll look them up. Don't know where Brewer and Shipley are originally from or are now but they lived in Independence Mo at one time. My brother showed me aproximately where they used to live.

Another song I was listening to last night was Chicken Train by the Ozark Mountian Daredevils. Forget Katy Blue, I like the chicken song ;-)

[BluesDuke]

RE: "One Toke Over the Line", by Brewer & Shipley... Great guitar break and riffs by the late great Jerry Garcia.

*zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.....(Sorry, no Brewer and Shipley fan here. For that matter, except for their very first album, no Grateful Dead fan here, either...)

[BluesDuke]

Forget Katy Blue, I like the chicken song ;-)

I think you meant "Jackie Blue," no? (A Steely Dan album was called Katy Lied...)

[HP8753]

And I will not work next to a pot head for well documented reasons.

With 40 to 60 million pot smokers in a country of 270 million,Me thinks maybe you might be working next to a lot more pot smokers than you may realize.

[KMG365]

You sound like Woody Harrelson.

[sweet_diane]

"I pay taxes, I work hard, I never use a sick day. I am a moral person. I value my family, hard work, and the American way. I just can't understand why anybody would be concerned that I smoke a bowl or two in the quiet of the evening."

I used to stop almost every evening at the same store on my way home from work. Most evenings I ran into the head of security for the company I work for and he'd be buying his nightly 6 or 12 pack. He had spoken about the 'charge' he got out of performing the company pre-hire and random drug tests... weeding out all those druggies doncha know. The irony, I believe, was lost on him.

[HP8753]

Woody Harrelson is an idiot.But on the issue of hemp,He is pushing in the right direction.
The decision to ban hemp was made as a result of $$$$$$,Not science.
If all the present uses of nylon had been realized at the time of it's release.They never would have banned hemp.
But at the time,It's only use was to replace hemp fiber.After the ban on hemp,linseed oil (drying type oil) was used to replace the hemp oil that was no longer available.

For more info read the book "The Emporer Wears No Clothes" by Jack Herer
The Emporer wears no Clothes

[sweet_diane]

"or spend our tax dollars financing the enforcement of this nonsense."

I've often wondered if we could actually find out how much money goes into enforcing marijuana laws... REAL figures...not just the ones the pols want us to know. And I can't help but believe that one of the main reasons marijuana won't even be considered by many pols is the fact that it can be homegrown, therefore not taxed and not make a pharm. company rich.

If I had my druthers, I'd either make marijuana use and cultivation legal, or do away with alcohol as well. Alcohol abuse has come all around destroying my family, whereas my experience with marijuana relieved chronic pain without making me brain dead like the pain meds the docs prescribed. [before some of you scream 'druggie!'; gave it up when we had kids].

[barker]

I think you meant "Jackie Blue,"

Of course I did. Er, uh, I just typed Katy Blue to see if anyone was paying attention.

[budwiesest]

Wonder Weed or Devil Weed?

It can't be both?