well tommorow is 4/20 international pot smoking day.
this debate was bound to happen… and i wanted to start it.
-pro pot.
Pol Pot?
funny.
There is a Seattle Hempfest 4/20 Benefit show on Friday. Seattle is always good for a little hemp festivity.
At my friend’s school (CU @ Boulder) they are having a huge festival with brownies and PB&J sandwiches, live bands, comedians, prizes (tshirts & sunglasses). It’s being sponsored by NORML and, according to this site the security will be very lax. Marijuana is decriminalized in Colorado and the security people say that they do not condone the use of illicit drugs, but they cannot stop people from congregating. If you’re caught with up to an ounce of bud you will only get a $100 fine.
Chebahut, a sandwich/sub shop, is also sponsoring the event. My friend says that everyone who works at Chebahut smokes pot; not surprising for a “stoner themed sandwich shop”.
I wish I were in CO right now…
+pro pot
Info on the event:
most of my school will be participating in 4/20 and they dont even know.
See the movie GRASS, a docu narrated by Woody Harrelson. Truly educational.
Marijuana was decriminalized in about 40 states in the USA and they were working on a national decrim until one of Pres Carter’s cabinet members (HEW?) got caught with cocaine, and CArter and everyone had to appear tough on drugs.
When more people are in prison for nonviolent crimes such as drug possession than there are for violent crimes, I think we have a problem.
I don’t smoke, but I’m totally in favor of legalization…tomorrow is Moscow’s Hemp Fest, which is supposed to be about the environmentally friendly uses of hemp, and it kinda is, but it’s more of just a ganja-party.
If you join NORML today (4/20/07) it will only cost you $4.20 and you will get a pretty cool poster for free (normally a $5 value, so you essentially make $0.80).
poster^
4/20!!!
Hemp can be used to make fabrics (rope, shirts, shorts, backpacks), cooking oil, flavorings (similar to basil), and the seeds are good for you (like sunflower seeds). One square acre of hemp can produce the same amout of paper as 6 acres of trees. Hemp grows much quicker than trees do and can be grown almost anywhere (it is a weed after all).
THC, the most active cannabinoid in marijuana, has recently been found to slow the growth of cancerous cells. Smoking anything is not good for you, but this new finding may lead to the development of some concentrated THC capsules (maybe like Marinol?) that can be taken to stimulate appetite and reduce the rate at which the cancer cells multiply.
The harmful effects of smoking can be dramatically reduced by either using a vaporizer or by eating it (see Leary Biscuits).
Marijuana relieves pain of glaucoma/cancer/HIV/MS/arthritis sufferers, stimulates their appetites, makes them feel happy, and yet it’s illegal.
This reminds me of a song by Phish:
How much does a rectangular acre produce? 
lol
uhm
yeah, it has good effects, but erm… it kills brain cells … making you REtArDeD
We had the problem before that. What you see is the solution.
The problem was
–too many soldiers getting RIFfed (Reduction in Force) from military bases means:
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How do we keep unemployment down and find jobs for these otherwise unemployable soldiers?
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What do we do with these empty military bases?
Solution: Turn the military bases into prisons, and make the unemployed soldiers prison guards!!!
If you can think of a better solution, let me know.
Of course, that creates the problem of empty prison beds.
If you cannot fill those prison beds, you have unemployed soldiers.
Solution: Harsh federal sentencing guidelines. The US Attorney General mandates his US Attorneys (like the ones Gonzales just fired) to report any federal judge who offers downward departures from the sentencing guidelines, as an intimidation tactic. Don’t the federal judges also work under the Attorney General? Hmmmm.
Prison beds filled. end of problem.
Your problem, Gilby, is that you confuse a good solution with a bad problem.
Seriously. Anyone who wants to fry their brain AND at the same time make complete fools of themselves by sucking the smoke of burning plants is an idiot.
- a smilie becuase I don’t want to be rude to an idiot.
Billy, if you let half the gaurds go they’d turn to crime and would end up filling the prison beds that are gaurded by the other half. Brilliant!
Nice try, but do the math.
One guard to 100 inmates.
Ok, fire 99% of them then, even cheaper.
You forgot, unemployment was the problem you were trying to avoid…