Post Secret

I found this at PostSecret. What a great site! I don't feel alone anymore.

RCMP seize medical pot users' plants

We must have far too many police officers in this fine country of ours. The RCMP have once again proven their uselessness by raiding the house of a medical patient that did not have the proper paperwork in place.

An Evansburg man who takes pot for his pain fears he's about to get sicker after police seized his weed yesterday.

Steve Chorney, 39, has been on painkillers for years, but over time they've started to damage his liver.

As an alternative, he started smoking pot under Health Canada's medical-marijuana program, but yesterday's police raid at his farm means he'll have to go back on his other pain medication.

"If I don't get off these pills, I'm going to die," he said.

I feel safer knowing this guy doesn't have his medicine. Go RCMP!

Family Values Up in Smoke

Mrs. Lovejoy is not pleased. Parents are a bad influence on their children when they smoke marijuana together. Won't someone please think of the children???

The only thing is, the children in this article all happen to be adults with the exception of the 8 year old kid whose mom gave him marijuana to treat his ADHD. But I guess telling the truth wouldn't sell very many papers, would it?

I have a terrible, terrible confession to make. This one time when my mom had a back-ache, I rolled her a joint and we smoked it together. I am a bad influence on parents! I must be stopped.

I also have to wonder why it is acceptable to give your pre-pubescent children crystal meth Desoxyn but it's not OK to give your kids marijuana. In a sane world, no parent would go to jail or be derided in a major newspaper for giving a kid a substance that is safer than sugar. It boggles the mind!

Even more puzzling, the Chatham Daily News published this glowing editorial about marijuana last week. What gives?

Dumbass du jour

Campbell just wants to give up

By JIM HARRISON

Jul 15 2007

At the risk of making a character judgment, Larry Campbell is a few cards short of a full deck.

The former Vancouver, mayor, one-time coroner and now Liberal lackey — er, senator — has been known for his harebrained thinking.

The injection centre for downtown eastside junkies in Vancouver is one of his favorites. But Campbell is going too far calling for the legalization of marijuana.

Too many resources wasted on too many people, he says, using small quanitities of the drug.

Well, if law enforcement can’t do the job as effectively as some people would like, the answer, according to this guy, is to throw one’s hands up and legalize the crime.

Can’t get people to buy into the notion that marijuana is a problem? Let’s legalize it, tax the hell out of it and at least get some benefit for health care, or some other program that might benefit society, instead of letting organized crime in on all the big money.

For those who are weak-willed, perhaps it’s a way out. But illicit drugs aren’t good for people, regardless of how harmless some might think they are.

If marijuana doesn’t impair, it can’t be much good for the respiratory system, or what few brain cells those who smoke it have left.

If it’s marijuana today, why not auto theft tomorrow?

People like Campbell seem to want to take the path of least resistance — no matter how wrong it might be for the common good.

Why do these intellectually lazy prohibitionists try to compare smoking a joint with CRIMES like auto theft? Oh right, I forgot, because morons keep falling for it. Unbelievable.

Loretta Nall on Hannity and Colmes

Go Loretta! It was a great segment on a Fox "news" program. Well done.

The Ultimate Green Machine: A Car Made of Hemp

I have a few problems with the environmental movement. I do believe that global warming is happening, however the "solution" to the global warming problem is always the same. Tell the people that they are responsible for global warming and lay a massive guilt trip for every incandescent light bulb in their homes or unrecycled piece of newspaper. I am not saying that it is bad to reduce, reuse or recycle. Those are great things to do. I just feel that the solution to global warming must come from systemic changes. Even if every single incandescent light bulb is replaced with fluorescent bulbs, it is a tiny dent in our over-consuming ways.

What we need is for people like Al Gore to push the repeal of drug prohibition as an environmental issue. We have been hearing a lot about Canada being the number one consumer of marijuana in the industrialized world. We also know that the majority of that marijuana is being grown under high-powered lights. Imagine how many watts of electricity could be saved if all of that BC Bud was grown outdoors instead of under 1000 watt lights.

So I was very happy to read about a hemp car being built in the UK. At least somebody is noticing that the prohibition of cannabis has had a great environmental impact. Even if the article did include the following reefer madness nonsense:

Tony Juniper, the director of Friends of the Earth, said schemes such as the hemp trial could make a small contribution to sustainability but failed to address the real issue.

"This is the same old problem that so many politicians have of thinking climate change can be solved simply by new technologies," he said. "The real problem is that there are too many cars on the road burning too much fuel. It doesn't make much difference just making a few components more sustainable. The only real benefit is that if it crashes you might breathe in the smoke to help you relax."

The ignorance displayed by this so-called environmentalist is appalling. Hemp is an extremely useful plant for fuel, food, paper, plastics and bio-mass. Get with the program.

A Long hiatus

I just got back from a long vacation and I will resume posting tomorrow. My vacation was fabulous and wonderful and very energizing. I sure did miss the internet! I have so much reading to catch up on! See you tomorrow.