1. We need to start using the word MARXIST more liberally; Tea Partiers should identify the president and his minions primarily as such; and then conservatives must follow the argument to its logical conclusion regarding the apolitical nature of Counterculture. There is no conflict between identifying as politically conservative while countercultural in one’s spirituality, lifestyle, artistic tastes, sexuality, and drug habits. As more people become politically engaged over the course of the next decade — due to the effects of our chronic debt problems — it is vital that we articulate this distinction so we can maintain political power.
It’s been almost a decade that I’ve explored and researched ideology, the political world’s equivalent of theology. And after two years of full time observation at the professional level I’ve come to doubt the utility of the Left vs Right paradigm.
These are abstractions which have been so muddied and expanded that they are no longer useful. Everyone — no matter which side they sympathize with — can just fill in the blank with what the term means to them. Thus for you, “the Left” is your own mishmash of socialist politics, caricatures of dope-smoking 60s hippies who say unintelligent things, and non-Christian culture. And there’s little I can do to reason you out of that experience-driven comprehension of the supposed territory amidst the fog of our political war. Better for you and I to just set the metaphor aside in place of another.
Hiding one's true Marxist face is a universal of today's most prominent Marxists.
For our opponents, ambiguity in definitions has strategic advantages. Occupy Wall Street retains its potency because it refuses to define what it wants. Thus OWS provides everyone who’s got a chip on their shoulder about how much credit card debt they have or some other grown-up stressor with a target to blame AND a break from the hard work of figuring out how to solve their own personal problems and character flaws.
Using the terms “Left” and “Right” does the same thing. We’re playing into the ideological constructions that have been defined to our enemies’ advantage. Continuing to accept these metaphors fuels the Marxist movement’s destructive, revolutionary fire.
So Mary, while in our previous dialogue I suggested that the president and his supporters should be regarded as leftist, today I revise the thesis and instead posit MARXIST is the more appropriate description. In the past I’ve argued that “the Left” was analogous with Christianity — and that various branches within the Left (Socialists, progressives, labor unionists, stealth community organizing Alinskyites, mainline Democrats) were akin to Baptists, Lutherans, and Catholics. But now the conclusion that I come to is that the broad designation “the Left” vs “the Right” is better compared to the religious characterization “monotheist” vs “polytheist.” It’s certainly there and is useful in one sense, but to accurately characterize the nature of the shifting political culture in a clear manner requires more precise, and potent language. And yes, the fact that this terminology irritates our opponents more deeply is further reason to employ it. Comfort the disturbed, disturb the comfortable.
Next: Naming names and increasing clarity…
Categories: Health and Fitness, PJ Lifestyle Columns
Tags: Barack Obama, Counterculture, Jazz, Jesus Christ, Karl Marx, Marxism, Medicinal Marijuana, Mysticism, Occult, Religion, Rock n Roll, Science
In my opinion there’s a very specific reason as to why Obama is shutting down the medical marijuana industry in California – because they are directly competing with the DTO’s in Mexico (Sinaloa cartel in particular). This all has to do with the Fast and Furious mess, mark my words. Obama’s administration is helping the Sinaloa cartel with putting legislation in place like this, with very sophisticated arms, with taxpayer stimulus money, you name it. We have only started to uncover the beginning of it. The question is, why is he supporting that very violent cartel deliver all kinds of drugs to Americans and make all this money in return?
Time to start asking some very serious questions and get Eric Holder in the hot seat.
Very interesting. Can you offer more on this?
Here’s an article that will make you stop and think. It’s on FreeRepublic, printed with permission from the source blog, so I assume it’s okay to mention here. Read the whole article on Free Republic (it’s continued past the break).
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2796575/posts
Even if you question the medical marijuana issue link to Fast N Furious, there are too many related things that don’t make any sense.
Lastly, for very detailed and inside information regarding Fast N Furious, see this blog here:
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/
Thanks.
The socialists have come close to taking power twice in Mexico. Maybe this is an attempt to destabilize the PAN government.
This is scary Sh*t! I shudder to think how corrupt this administration really is. Brian Terry’s life was ‘expendible’, how many more are?
As many as it takes is their viewpoint, I’m sure.
The war on drugs has over-armed and militarized the police and court system, sucks up tons of money for various branches of the government to use and facilitated expanding government power and shrinking personal liberty. Where in any of that does anyone see a reason for statists to legalize MJ? As Hillary said ” There is too much money in it!”.
Obama probably knew that already when he was blathering about going easy on pot during the campaign. He never had any intention of doing so.
The destruction that the war on drugs has wreaked is far worse than any problem legal usage would create. And it promises to get worse. I seriously doubt there would be much increase in use or more problems associated with it’s use were pot legal. I believe far more people have their lives destroyed now by contact with the legal system over pot than have it destroyed by pot usage.
I am a non-user, never have been a user, and my opinion is that the war on drugs is a war on the American people. A war on liberty. License to steal, assault and oppress.
“I am a non-user, never have been a user, and my opinion is that the war on drugs is a war on the American people. A war on liberty. License to steal, assault and oppress.”
Is it just me, or is there a Ronulan stench in the air here?
The war on drugs is a war on the American people?
Get the hell outta here. Drugs f*** up people’s lives. And we’re not just talking about Mary Jane. America’s free and open society tries to deal with that as best it can. YOU may believe that this is a Liberty issue, but most clear-headed Americans see it as a public/cultural health issue. Just as the U.S. Constitution is not a suicide pact with regard to Islamic terrorists, so too is it not with regard to Latin-American narco-peddlers.
Frank, baby, I haven’t used marijuana in 30 years, and I don’t do anything of that sort any longer — hell, I don’t even drink alcohol. None the less, I know enough about history to know that humans always use intoxicants, and I can’t think of a single example in which Prohibition hasn’t turned out to cause more general social harm than the intoxicant being prohibited.
Oh, and we don’t tell people to “get out of here” at PJ for disagreeing, or even for being a Ron Paul supported.
So keep a civil tongue in your head.
I wouldn’t use cannabis even if it were legal and growing free all over the place. I’m no fan of stuff that interferes with short-term memory and goal-directed behavior.
I’ve come to believe that the whole “forbidden fruit” aspect of cannabis has been the main reason why people want to try it in the first place. The same thing happened with alcohol during Prohibition.
If cannabis were legal, I predict that no greater number of people will use it than already do so.
The big problem from what I’ve read about the constant use of cannabis is the high probability of developing mental problems which seems to be one explanation for the current behaviour of the 60s generation.
What I can vouch for is that the majority of youngsters I know who thought it fun to experiment on a weekly basis are being treated for PTSD symptoms.
Part of the reason that Prop 19 failed was there is no ‘breathalyser’ test for pot. Booze is legal. Driving drunk is not. Currently there is no easy test to tell if you are high while driving or operating heavy machinery. Invent that machine and you take away a strong argument against legalization.
I recall being in high school and discussing a proposed raise in the cigarette tax. One of the other kids asked why we didn’t just outlaw the things since there was nothing good about them. They cost to much, gave you cancer and even made your clothes stink.
The teacher replied that freedom was the greatest secular value within out society. If someone started taking choices away from you, even if they were stupid, self destructive choices, everyones freedom would be diminished. It meant that someone else was making choices for you, which is the opposite of freedom. To be free means you have to be free to make the bad choices as well as he good.
Fat, drunk and stupid may not be a smart way to go through life, but it should still be a choice for you, not, moralizing, self serving politicians to make.
Of course that acts under the assumption that being under the influence of alcohol is somehow comparable to being under the influence of marijuana. Perhaps it could be for some people in certain dosages, but that doesn’t mean that it is for all.
The “machine” that can tell if someone shouldn’t be driving is a police officer seeing a car swerving on the street.
I would legalize drugs but you have to register on a public list and give up your drivers license. We are a modern technical society, but if you want to live in the stoned age we can accommodate that. I would not legalize synthetic drugs like acid, pcp or speed. Only natural unprocessed plants. So that is Pot, coca leaves and black tar opium. You process them into cocaine or heroine that will be illegal. Plus county governments can still ban the use like dry counties in Texas.
I’ve always found this natural argument fascinating, my apologies if I am reading too much into your use of “natural unprocessed plants”. What about black-tar opium being natural would lead one to think its safer than LSD?
Taking two plants like monkshood and foxglove for example, the latter is where we’ve gained the effective cardiac drug digitalis from, but this drug is not without side effects and while steeping the leaves will give a person a dose of digitalis this is much harder to control than in pill forms, or even a synthetic digitalis(of which I think I’ve heard of, but I’m not sure).
In comparison we have monkshood, of which I don’t think we’ve produced any medicinal drugs from, but has certainly found its uses mystically and historically, yet the chemicals in this plan are potent enough that handling this plant can give one enough to contact for effects, its enough that children ought not to be allowed to play with it at all, much less each any of it.
I think these are fine examples of the poison is dose argument as well as refutation of that natural means safe. Both of these plants used incorrectly can be quickly fatal. So I wonder if this dividing line of natural is a particularly effective break to follow?
Yeah, fine, except that alcohol has been with us since pre-colonial times. It is enmeshed in our history and culture. The same does not apply to pot, coke, crack, crank, bennies, downers, LSD, X, and beyond. Beer, booze, and wine are established vices. We know what to expect of them. These new substances are not. And in fact we know little about their workings and their ramifications. We know that crystal meth destroys dental hygiene, but does that mean that it should not be a part of Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations? Who knows? I suspect not, but all I really know is that it is not up to Ron Paul, the NYT, or Mother Jones to decide for us to accept, or not accept, the absorption of these new vices into normal society. It is for the people, the polity, yea the (God help us) culture to decide. There is nothing in the U.S. Constitution to guide us on this matter. Huffing glue and shooting smack was not known to revolutionary times (although over-drinking was quite well known). Which is not to say that the U.S. Constitution, as written and intended by our forefathers, should not serve to constrain government ambitions and ensure individual liberties in our own time. All I am saying is CUT THE CRAP, all you libertarian wankers out there (I hold out no hope for liberals and leftists). You are not going to get away with holding our views, on smoking crank, etc., hostage to our attachment to the Bill of Rights. And shame on you on even trying to do so.
not only this but beer and wine, for much of human history, was safer than water as the bacteria gets ko’d during the brewing process
Really, Dr Frank,
Anyone would think you were off your medications with a rant like that.
Let’s see… Both Washington and Jefferson wrote numerous letters about the medicinal benefits of smoking hemp (aka pot, marijuana, etc). Opium has been used as a painkiller for about as long as civilization has existed. Coca bean was used as a mild stimulant in the areas where it grew natively, for centuries. There isn’t a single culture on the face of the planet that had access to some form of stimulant or mind altering drug that didn’t use it in some way. Oh, yes, and none of this was illegal until about the same time as alcohol prohibition.
Oops. There goes that argument.
Do they cause damage? In large quantities, yes. When healthy people use them frequently, yes. You’d cause similar levels of damage putting a healthy limb in a cast for 2 months – but the limb with the broken bone needs that support.
As for the so-called immorality of using these drugs, have you ever had surgery? Yes? You’re a druggie – the anesthetics used are opium derivatives. Ever handled a hemp rope, and inhaled? You’re a druggie. There might not be anything like the concentration of cannabinoids in industrial hemp as there is in drug-grade hemp, but it’s still there. Drink coffee? Mind-altering drug with well-known withdrawal symptoms. Also rather more recent than hemp or opium use, at least in the West. Ditto for tea. Tobacco is another recent addition to the West – and it’s also a mind-altering substance.
Now, given that cannabinoids have well-established therapeutic properties, the hemp plant is so hardy and easy to grow it got called “weed”, and the dearth of actual research into where it’s helpful, what constitutes an overdose and so forth; given that every anesthetic used in surgery is derived from opium and no viable alternative for intense pain has been found; given that Coca-Cola originally used coca bean for its stimulant effect rather than caffeine because it had less harmful withdrawal effects; what is immoral about legalizing and researching these substances when their fellow mind-altering substances like tobacco and alcohol are freely available to any adult?
I submit it’s nothing more than a reactive Puritan belief that if someone, somewhere enjoys it, it must be sinful. Forcing others to suffer to prevent someone, somewhere doing something enjoyable is the kind of thoughtless cruelty that is much worse than cruelty with malice aforethought.
Actually, in the beginning, in the much maligned 60s, the apolitical hippies or pot smoking counter culture were loathed by the Marxists, specifically the New Left. Revolutionary and stoner are contradictions in behavior and outlook–a reality not explored in the movie Easy Rider. The whole point of the counter culture was dropping out of the capitalist corporate rat race, and not for the Marxian utopia that came to be represented by the ostensibly few hippie communes that failed miserably later. The hippies were loathed by both country club republicans and limousine liberals, because a stoned hippie doesn’t produce that “surplus value” on Detroit’s production lines or New York’s Wall Street, and hippies generally didn’t make for good soldiers to police the free world’s democracies and dictatorships. So, I’m hardly surprised that the Obama administration would be less tolerant of the stoners than, say, the typical Hollywood Sean Penn, Dennis Hopper liberal. Hey, you can throw in Peter Fonda on this matter too, who seems to still be freaking out.
Now contrasting and comparing the iconic counter culture movie Easy Rider to the Che movie Motorcycle Diary could possibly be of use in evaluating the ultimate social consequences of a world view. Doubtless a bias on my part, I suspect I had more fun in the 60s than Che, and with much less negative social consequences as a byproduct–after all the hippies didn’t produce Cuba and the other related revolutionary hell holes. But there is still the political economic question, to paraphrase Dylan, when “Everybody’s got to get stoned” there’s nobody left to produce the value added goodies during that time frame. That’s why the hippie communes failed as 40 percent of the commune ended up doing 100 percent of the work, leaving 60 percent to lay around smoking and screwing and generally creating scarcity conflict over free love and free food.
Don said “That’s why the hippie communes failed as 40 percent of the commune ended up doing 100 percent of the work, leaving 60 percent to lay around smoking and screwing and generally creating scarcity conflict over free love and free food.” -Kind of the way it is now, with or without pot??
leaving 60 percent to lay around smoking and screwing and generally creating scarcity conflict over free love and free food
Oh, those were the good old days.
Okay. That’s the way I remember it. Hippies mostly wanted to drop out and live free. But, granting that, what’s your point?
gazillion$ of $$$ spent trying to eradicate something that grows wild. loss of hard won liberties and freedoms. ever expanding excuses to increase the police state. genius level, no doubt. no wonder odumbo is so hot on this, its right up his alley. especially that part about hurting people who suffer w/o it. he is BIG on $pending on health stuff, in case you haven’t heard. no need to worry though, i’m sure it won’t affect the illegal $upply. he may be just trying to drive up the price of illegal guns sales across the border. who can figure this crowd?
what is that saying about the enemy of my enemy being my friend? lotsa truth there. check your motives here. might not be pretty.
when i was in high school (late 60′s) i remember cops coming to our school and showing us a film about how bad marijuana was. they explained how it caused people to steal rob, rape, murder and (believe it or not) jump out of windows. actually had footage of that one. that image has always been with me. whenever i hear about someone jumping out a window, i always wonder. guess some things just never change.
don’t really agree much w/ hitlery, but it really is all about making $$$ from it being illegal, and let the truth be dam ned.
i wish they had told us about the part where everybody just kinda sits around and orders pizza. could have made million$ investing in pizza joints.
Don’t quite understand what you are getting at but one cannot compare the society where the something that grows wild is found, and collected, to the society where it is imported; unless of course you would like to see the US on a par with Afghanistan or Bolivia economically and culturally.
my point?
well let’s review:
1. hoards of $$$ spent down a black hole w/o any sight of desired results.
2. excuse of drug war to systematically destroy our individual rights.
3. a festering sore called our southern border now probably being used to purposely destroy our way of life.
the disastrous true nature of our politicians is exposed in this “war on drugs”. protection of established interests is paramount. demonize whatever and whomever required to protect the flow of $$$ into designated pockets. use the power of the media to sway the average worker bee to truly believe. then spend spend spend tax $$$ to protect the whole game. we have a perfect example of these tactics being used recently in the healthcare fiasco.
imho the drug war architects made the same mistakes napoleon and hitler both made in their great defeats. they tried to fight too many adversaries. russia was a “bridge too far” for both of them. and they both suffered defeat because of it.
if these u.s. politico’s had instead of attacking all illegal drugs, only attacked a lesser enemy, say just “hard” drugs, there might not today be so many devastated people hooked on crack, heroin, you name it. not to mention ruin the futures and careers of so many of our promising young people. that wasted $$$ and time and resources could have been used to fight some real, finite and beatable enemies. the desire to keep all marijuana in the fight by our resident Odummy guarantees that our border sore will continue to ooze death and destruction.
but that’s the battle plan, isn’t it?
An over long article that could have been stated more concisely. That is, Marxists are Puritanical in outlook. They see citizens as units of production that the State owns. Anything that negatively effects production is bad and must be controlled.
It certainly could be stated more concisely if I was intending to make your arguments instead of my own.
There are many, many reasons for this behavior.
1. The “war on drugs” diverts $millions into the pockets of the trial lawyer’s association and various police and correctional unions. . . all of whom donate to the DNC.
2. As “LaSuthernboy” stated, the “war on drugs” is, and always has been, a war on the American people. And Obama Hates the American people.
3. If you want to find the strictest anti-drug laws on the planet look to muslim countries. . . which is what Obama wants for the US.
4. As Katinka stated, the Obama administration is allied with the drug cartels and shares their goals of disarming the American people and erasing the border. He needs to keep those cartels strong. Who knows, maybe some of those untraceable on-line contributions came from there also.
5. Lastly, the one thing the Marxists know they need, is exactly what the social conservatives served up to them. . . a police state. Massive amounts of money, technology and weaponry in place that can be taken over and very quickly be re-tasked to do the will of the State, whatever that will is. Want to build a case to disarm the citizens? Easy, we’ll just use DEA for that. And the beat goes on.
Very well said. Thank you.
Yes, without force, the Marxists cannot achieve their aims, since they certainly can’t get what they want at the ballot box. When they lose in the upcoming elections, they may very well turn to violence.
Of course, that would give the president a pretext for instituting martial law to ah, “keep the peace.” I don’t think it’s gonna work for them because our military has more brains and character in their collective little pinkie finger than all the extra-constitutional czars put together.
Somehow, we let the Federal Government become a thing that arrests American Citizens because they possess a particular type of vegetable matter.
If I lived in California I guess I’d want to spend my time stoned also. Considering the drug abuse by liberal politicians I don’t see any thing to be gained by Obama’s move unless, as Katinka (#1 Post) said, perhaps these shops are competing with Obama’s buds (no pun intended there, Obama’s drug cartel gun customers).
Medical marijuana also competes with Big Pharma. Can’t have that, they lobbied hard for Obamacare.
Its ridiculous to have people criminalized for smoking pot.
Oh, you poor baby dopers! Can’t get loaded, throw away your inhibitions(if you still have any), and act out wrongly, irresponsibly and unrealistically!
Y’all know why grass is illegal; thats why you smoke it- to get loaded, to be under its influence, in a just-pretend world.
And you are so addicted, so drug dependent that you will say or do anything to get your hands on some more dope. Sick, sad, sorry, shameful!
Don’t deal with your problems, just toke up and make believe they’ve gone away. Do all that you do under the influence of your favorite dope and wonder why life is so miserable. And, when you die and go to Hell for being a drunkard- plea that you are really only a “free spirit’, living in a perpetual daze of marijuana smoke. But there is no dope in Hell- only dopers.
“Time spent wasted -is wasted time.”
My divorced, depressed brother met a “hippie couple” at a bar. They said they would paint his house -if he let them squat there for a while, feed them and buy some pot and some beer, etc.(Heck, the guy even said “You can sleep with my girlfriend..”[he even wanted to sleep with my brother, too..]
Well, month later I visited and horror of horrors- worst paintjob I have ever seen-hippies were gone. My brother had gotten seriously in love with the lady and threw the guy out- the “lady” soon followed…
Do you have any evidence that stoners will go to hell?
ICor.6.9-10.
1. I don’t see stoners in that list. 2. What evidence do you have that the Bible is anything more than words written in a foreign language by men that died a long time ago?
Only dopers in hell, Shoot—I’m in…For real, Does God discriminate like that?
‘Forgiven sinners this way’ Dopers please use the down escalator.’
If you can’t forgive whom ever hurt you, get counseling.
Your last paragraph is referring to someone you have in mind. Who?
Heh. Anybody got some pizza. Sure is getting warm in here.
Thanks David for this article. I’ve been talking about this subject ever since I read the book, “The Emperor Wears No Clothes”, by Jack Herer. It is disgusting what the federal government has done to this plant. For no other reason than to make sure that Dupont, Hearst, Mellon and whatever government official they bought off, stay and get filthy rich. Since 1937, this farse has been in affect. The fight for the legalization of hemp cannabis is what every conservative and libertarian who is against big government should be looking at. http://www.thinksubstance.com
The war on drugs will drag on until the statists can figure a way to maintain their standing armies of heavily armed minions and huge outlays of capital, without the bugaboo of substance abuse. The WOD is about convincing citizens that giving up liberty is an acceptable price to pay for this misuse of resources.
David, no one can say Blah Blah Blah, quite like you.
The war on drugs, just like the war on rape, or theft, or fraud will never be won, but should never be given up.
It is a war on snake oil, quackery, and poison pedaling, which goes on to this very day.
Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy. Hmmm. You believe rape and self medicating are morally equivalent and that we as a nation should eternally invest in a losing endeavor.
Fascinating… Maybe your the one peddling (pedal is like with a foot) counterfeit goods.
You should sell those Condo vacation week rip-off deals.
Declaring war on snake oil, quackery and poison peddling (not pedal)is akin to hmm, ahh, quackery
How’s my blah blah blah…
The end of federal prohibition is right around the corner. We just need your voice and every other person that cares about these civil liberties to speak up. NOW is the time. Tell the federal government to leave the decisions up to the states. They will listen or be replaced.
Tell your representatives: http://pvox.co/CdiFqY
Tell the Obama administration: http://wh.gov/gDQ
“[Prohibition] attempts to control a man’s appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes.” – Abraham Lincoln
Just did a five second fact check, and that “quote” by Lincoln was made up by a member of a group in favor of alcohol who was running for mayor. Best to check before you adopt a made up credo as your guiding star.
According to the article in LA Weekly, the main argument the Obama Administration has made for this crackdown is that too many Californians are getting rich selling marijuana!
“Today, officials are painting California’s pot shops as the cash cows of greedy millionaires, distributing pot without indiscretion to whomever can get their hands on something resembling a doctor’s note.”
Trust a left-winger to come up with that kind of argument against drugs.
You know how Obama thinks:
When you’ve made your first million dollars selling pot, you’ve made enough money.
Ha! Good eye. It’s not that pot should not be readily available, it is just that nobody in the private sector should be getting rich off it. Absolutely. Government already has a controlling share of the gambling game in this country (state lottos), surely dope should be within its purview as well. Up next: government-run prostitution services. And after that? Who knows? Maybe government for the people, by the people should bring back gladiatorial games to the death. Only this time around we could put children in the arena — wouldn’t that be exciting? I mean, we’ve already grown used to killing (perfectly healthy) unborn human offspring. Why not go the Full liberal/progressive Monty and breed the little beggars for blood sport? It could be a first. Or did the Aztecs already do that? Anyway … Here’s to Free government dope.
It’s not that pot should not be readily available, it is just that nobody in the private sector should be getting rich off it.
If it were readily available and legal, they wouldn’t. It’s the artificial scarcity that runs up the price.
Through most of the English-speaking world, legislation backing the “war on drugs” purports to reverse the onus of proof in drug-possession trials. That reversal is incompatible with the rule of law and is therefore unconstitutional in ALL jurisdictions. More: http://is.gd/noreverse.
First off, take a breath.
Second, don’t conflate medical marijuana with illegal marijuana. Someone might get the crazy idea that people like you pushed for medical marijuana as a ‘smokescreen’ (heh) for legalization on the sly.
Third, at least give the president some credit for his actions, if not his intentions. What is more conservative than enforcing laws with which you disagree? Would that he could develop similar enthusiasm for enforcing laws concerning illegal emigration.
“B) Barack Obama and the movement he represents are most accurately understood as Marxist, not Countercultural.”
Excellent point. The early hippies understood that very well. When the New Left came to them and wanted an alliance against the government the Digger leaders told them in effect “a plague on both your houses”. The New Left understood it well too as the SDS considered hippies in general as ineffectual jokers.
Not to worry, little neo-hippies. Chairman Barry has no intention of taking your drugs away from you. The present crackdown is for show only. Once all liberty has been crushed in America, your drugs will be returned to you, albeit of inferior quality, in lesser abundance, and you will have to wait in line, maybe half-a-day or so, to receive them. But, hey! At least you will have the satisfaction of knowing that you will be getting your FAIR proletarian share of the state-held stash. Keep hope alive, all you 99-percenters out there. Peace and stupor be upon you.
If you are a Democrat Marxist/Progressive, morals, policies, laws, etc. are all relative to the current needs of society (i.e., they do not need to be constant or fixed in time). As such, there is no need to ask them if the Constitution currently permits Federal laws against drugs. Compare ‘Through the Looking Glass’, by Lewis Carroll: “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.”
If you are a conservative, you should be quickly able to answer that the Constitution currently does not permit federal laws against drugs unless it is properly amended to do so in the future. Many so-called Republicans today are Progressives and follow the everything-is-relative approach shared by the Marxists. As such, I see the Republican Progressives as being at least as much a threat to our Republic, Constitution and freedoms as the Democrat Marxists/Progressives.
Individual rights extend only until they infringe on the right of others where those who choose to ruin their own lives on them also affect many others in countless ways.
If you’re going to ruin your life, do it with alcohol. You’ll still adversely affect others lives but, it’s the only substance abuse that will remain legal. Don’t like it, too bad.
Clear Danger from Cannabis
http://bit.ly/2dyRwB
MARIJUANA IS NOT MEDICINE
SOMEBODY HAD BETTER TELL YOUR DOCTOR!
http://www.drugwatch.org/Marijuana%20is%20not%20medicine.htm
If drinking alcohol is going to infringe on the rights of others, it should be illegal, but, we all know how that turned out. The same is happening now with cannabis prohibition.
I wonder how many of the 65 million Useful Idiots were potheads that were stupid enough (or high enough) to vote for the self-confessed drug dealer in chief??
Now, of course, they’re all Paulbots fixing polls and marching with their own kind, Occupy Wall Street sludge.
Thank you very much BUT, I don’t need YOU or some apathetic, ignorant bureaucrat to make my decisions for me! It seems one of the differences between you and I is merely that I trust the people to make rational decisions in their own self-interest rather than treating citizens like idiots who can’t look out for themselves. Besides, natural selection will weed out the idiots eventually. I say legalize anything which is not PHYSICALLY addictive,ie can be used to make someone else your servant or slave. And does not make someone a danger to society or themselves in an aggressive manner. Almost all stoners I’ve known in my distant past don’t get violent when high. They usually eat something(munchies) and then go to sleep.
We won’t even get into the titanic lack of foresight on brilliantly glaring display of the exceptional shortsightedness of creating a GIGANTIC black market. Did this country learn NOTHING from Prohibition?
To quote Reagan,” Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.”
Cheers!
I have never smoked a single marijuana joint and never want to. I also think cigarettes are disgusting. However, I think it is incredibly wrong to spend billions of dollars trying to stop people from smoking marijuana. All this succeeds in doing is making the violent drug cartels multi-millionaires. And putting people in jail for smoking marijuana? Wrong and insane!
I strongly believe that medical marijuana oil must be made available to the public. Medical marijuana oil has been proven to HEAL CANCER and other diseases! I have a lot of distress and sorrow losing people who were given radiation and chemotherapy for cancer. Radiation and chemotherapy create more cancer! And destroy the immune system. The immune system needs to be strengthened in order to fight the cancer! Radiation and chemotherapy are a massive physical assault on the body.
People must have the human right to use medical marijuana oil for cancer and other diseases!
DAILY MAIL: Boy, two, with brain cancer is ‘cured’ after secretly being fed medical marijuana by his father
A desperate father whose son was suffering from a life-threatening brain tumour has revealed he gave him cannabis oil to ease his pain. And he has now apparently made a full recovery.
Cash Hyde, known as Cashy, was a perfectly healthy baby when he was born in June 2008 but became sick shortly before his second birthday.
At first he was misdiagnosed with glandular fever before his parents Mike and Kalli, from Missoula in Montana, were given the devastating news he had a serious brain tumour.
The little boy had to have arduous chemotherapy treatment to reduce the growth, which had drastic side effects including seizures and a blood infection.
His distraught parents were repeatedly told he was likely to succumb to the illness because the condition was so bad.
After one bout of high-dose chemotherapy, Cash was so weak he could not lift his head and was too sick to eat any solid food for 40 days.
It was at this point that Mr Hyde decided to take action and go down the route of medical marijuana to try to help his young son.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1383240/Boy-brain-cancer-cured-secretly-fed-medical-marijuana-father.html
Name calling, innuendo, scare tactics, anything but facts. . . who needs the Marxist left when we have the neo-con right? Statism, from the right or the left, is exactly the same. I guess no price in treasure or liberty is too great so that the self righteous can sleep sound at night knowing the nanny state is preventing their neighbors from doing something they don’t approve of.
Dam when you lose the pot heads you know you are a really screwed up person or the dumbest person in the country. It is okay to break our laws by coming here illegally, but do not even think about smoking that weed you are carrying into our country!
I dislike listening to the growing trend of pot supporters among the Right. These voices normally are not informed about the true nature of marijuana’s effects. There is substantial medical evidence of marijuana use and schizophrenia and PTSD-like symptoms. Marijuana and Madness is a worthwhile book to read, it is a collection of scientific essays that presents its case in very esoteric terms, so it is not for the casual read, that is for sure. I reject that “legalization of drugs” is a conservative principle: It is a libertarian principle. I believe the government should look at the efficacy of its programs, and consider its role, but I do not believe we should legalize drugs because if it is legal all of a sudden, the secondary problems attached to drug use would disappear.
Actually, Washington said this was not their call, California lawmakers requested FED help in going after these coops. BTWo, my MJ outlet is just fine, they didn’t receive any letters or notices to shut down. I have at least five MJ pharmacies I go to, all are fine.
Barack the Leno Clown, Barack the Hypocrite
President Barack Hussein Obama took some time off from his busy campaign schedule on his million dollar Canadian-built bus to pay a Tuesday visit to Jay Leno’s “Tonight Show.” He wasn’t nearly as funny as he was a few years ago when he ridiculed Special Olympics kids but he did tickle The Chin and Leno’s audience with some decent yuks.
The same night, 3000 miles away in New York City, Dave Letterman was doing his assigned shtick for the prez on the “Late Show” by abusing every Republican presidential candidate in sight, including making cracks about people with funny names like “Mitt” and “Newt” and “Herman.”
Who would want a president with a funny name, Dirty Dave asked rhetorically, apparently forgetting we currently have a chief executive with the funniest name in history. The Ed Sullivan Theater crowd seemed to have missed the irony and laughed themselves silly over “Mitt,” “Newt,” and “Herman.”
Out on the Left Coast, riskily appearing without his trusty teleprompters, a mistake he made in 2009 when he compared his poor bowling game to how Special Olympians would bowl, Barack didn’t put his foot in his mouth again although he wasn’t awfully amusing either.
Obama’s best comic line delivered in response to Leno’s anticipated question on his potential opponents in 2012 was that he was ”going to wait until everybody’s voted off the island,” an unsubtle reference to the TV show “Lost” and an unsubtle dig at his opposition as nothing more than actors.
The president also rambled on about “The fancy presidential limosine . . . smelling like waffles,” a spot on his tie, and his search for Wet Wipes to clean his teeth, far too much information and farther from entertaining.
Obama insisted he wasn’t yet paying any attention to the Republican debates and gave a few words of attention to the killing of Libya’s Col. Khadafi.
Left unsaid was that his slew of scrutineers are paying close attention to everything he and Republicans say and do, that his writers wrote that “Lost” quip, that the waffle smell was relevant to nothing, and that Khadafi was Obama’s erstwhile buddy.
Obama may have gotten grayer over the past few years but neither he nor his handlers have missed a step. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5809.)
I’m late to this party as I was referred here by a recent commentary.
Indian hemp fiber has been used for centuries for mryiad uses- rope, sail, paper, canvas, clothing. The seed-oil eas extracted and used for cooking, lubrication, and distilled into a solvent. This plant is not some new scourge.
In todays complex industrial setting there are numerous applications for this plant- pulp for paper, one of the longest commercially viable fibers known for composite materials, oils for cooking and medicinal uses.
And it grows annually to harvest, not years like trees. Contrary to popular belief, one can’t get “high” smoking hemp, in fact, hemp has a larger quantity of THC antagonists which act to block the brains THC receptors. Not a good buzz.
My larger point is that in attempting to prevent people from smoking marijuana, we have prevented every other beneficial use this marvelous plant offers humanity. And ensured that recreational use is the sole role of marijuana. Of course, ANYONE that wants it only has to look for it, it’s everywhere, quite a racket for everyone involved.