In an embarrassing column in the Washington Post, Dana Milbank acts much like a young boy who just saw his first breast.
How can Congress cure political ills? Smoke some marijuana.
Except in this case, the sniggering and giggling juvenile is discussing… marijuana!
Legal marijuana is spreading like a weed […] redefined the meaning of a grass-roots movement. […] There were no complaints, perhaps because munchies had been provided […] If the pot proponents were any more laid back, they would have been horizontal. […] Congress should immediately reefer the matter to committee to draft a joint resolution: Everybody must get stoned. […]
You get the idea.
It is too bad smoking weed doesn’t fix stupid,,luckily it doesn’t cause it.
A clown fronting the industrial prison complex is so clever. Then again, that was probably all that had to get this ball rolling 8 decades ago.
“they had” Listening to Carlos Castaneda instead of proof reading.
What? Not a single reference to legalization advocates having “high hopes” for reform? Did he lose his copy of the style book?
*snicker*… Pete said Boobie! and he did it w/o actually calling Milbank a boobie. Even tho’ he sooo obviously is.
I hope that it was Linda Taylor’s boobie. That would serve him right.
Awful! Awful mental image! Feeling nauseous…Gakk! Glarg!
Must medicate! Must medicate!
Wasn’t he the tit who said he liked to smoke weed, but preferred it stay illegal? Or am I mixing him up with some other boobie? Maybe he could start a new chapter for SAM, “Weed Smokers for Prohibition,” perhaps.
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OK, got your safety helmets on and fastened? Our friend Pepe sure doesn’t waste any time:
I wonder if the Uruguayan authorities are aware of the significance of April 20th? But it’s also Easter Sunday this year and I’m having a hard time imagining that the mundane business of government administration are going to be up and running in a Latin American country on Easter Sunday. Yes, I’m aware that Pepe is an atheist but is the rest of Uruguay?
For the drug illiteracy crowd, amateur pot comedy will stop once marijuana is fully legal. By then, jokes about marijuana won’t be any funnier than jokes about Caesar salads. At least, I’ve never thought of a Caesar salad as amusing.
It will have to run deeper than that. The humor based on cannabis stereotypes has been used as a weapon against cannabists for decades, and is ingrained in the culture. It’s something the prohibs count on.
The tone of most non-cannabist derived humor aimed at cannabists is essentially disrespectful, and deliberately so. Because what you feel safe in disrespecting you eventually feel safe in destroying.
The process of ‘dehumanization’ of ‘the enemy’ serves to remove any moral qualms that might exist against destroying that enemy. A tactic as old as dirt, and one used by the prohibs to justify their predations. (Drug addicts were seen as sub-human bipedal vermin, bearers of disease, who required elimination, not treatment.)
Those stereotypes will die out as soon as the cannabis-naive generation that created them does. Until then they have to be fought tooth-and-nail; recall that such denigration is part of the same process that History shows time and again leads to the murder of innocents. No one knows how many lives have been sacrificed on the altars of the Sacerdotes of Sobriety. but that was part of the process of how they – and we – get there.
The day of being a former drug warrior will be a shameful and hidden past are near.
Admitting working for the ONDCP/DEA/NIDA will not be a “good” job reference unless you are applying for jobs where corruption,no morals or honesty are required or frowned upon.
Jokes about Caesar Salads aren’t funny because any salad can be a Caesar salad if you stab it enough.
We need a law here…
Dr. Oz, Bryce Wylde, and the Canadian Law Against “False or Misleading News†17 January 2013
These regulations, which are enforced by the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), state that “A licensee shall not broadcast any false or misleading news†(5.1d). You may remember this little regulation from a few years ago, when the CRTC thought about getting rid of it, but backed down under unprecedented public outcry. Apparently we Canadians like to be able to trust our news media. Crazy, eh?
But should we care? I think so, but I suspect few of us really feel like there’s much we can do about these gurus of daytime television who regularly make claims that simply aren’t backed up by medical evidence. But maybe there is: maybe it’s time to give the CRTC a call. By clicking the link to the CRTC you’ll be taken to a fill in the blank style website that would allow you to lodge a complaint, and if you think news should in fact be factual, why not take a minute or two to register your concern?
Dr. Oz: Medical Marijuana: The Hot Debate, Pt 1. 3/28/2011
Is marijuana a powerful medical tool or a public health hazard?
Dr. Oz: Medical Marijuana: The Hot Debate, Pt 2.
Since being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, Montel Williams has launched a personal campaign to find a cure for MS and legalize medical marijuana. From the time he began taking medical marijuana, no additional plaque has formed in his brain. Hear his story.
Dr. Oz: Thoughts on the Marijuana Debate 12/04/2013
Let me be very clear: A discussion of the health risks of marijuana is not a moral judgment on someone who smokes pot – rather it’s my moral obligation as a physician to inform my audience of the dangers.
But my bottom line is that I cannot condone any type of impairment for recreational purposes, especially when the consequences are diminished mental capacity and possibly even dependence.
Dr. Oz: The Big Deal About Marijuana Use
Posted on 12/03/2013 | By Paula Riggs, MD
Paula Riggs, MD, explains how marijuana affects health and why users should think twice before they smoke.
Regular use over long periods can cause changes in the brain and behavior similar to other addictive drugs and can lead to addiction. Research shows that approximately 1 in 11 (9%) people who use marijuana will become dependent on it.
Withdrawal and continued use despite negative personal, social, legal or medical consequences are hallmarks of addiction and dependence.
Because of marijuana’s negative effects on attention, memory and learning, individuals who smoke marijuana daily may function at a reduced intellectual level some or all of the time.
“”Politically Approved Food and Drug Administration – PAFDA.””
Paid and/or Politically Correct Food and Drug Administration,,PPAFDA
Dana Beal is free!
http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/Danabeal
Global Marijuana March
http://cannabis.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Global_Marijuana_March
Dana Beal is the founder of the GMM.
4/20 @ 4:20 Smoke Out The Globe
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/topic/1533
Global Ganja Gathering Million Marijuana March
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/topic/1538
MAY 03 Global Cannabis March (Los Angeles)
https://www.facebook.com/events/281062982058007/
Someone who actually refuses to believe ‘boobies’ exist. Check out the video of Rep. Steve Cohen grilling ‘Boobie Blind’ Eric Holder;
http://tinyurl.com/prqlqfg
He’s “satisfied” with his department’s work on rescheduling marijuana? Eric, get that smirk off your face. Turn in your resignation and BE GONE!
It really takes a special kind of public official to have both sides of the table screaming for his being cashiered from the service.
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Well speaking of stupid jokes about cannabis, someone has heard my lament and come up with a new one.
Hey, I didn’t say it was funny, just new. But that’s a prohibitionist for you…even the new material takes 3000 years to develop.
From “Bones” Season 9 Episode 20. But good golly, what a horrid TV show. Even the medical merrywanna device couldn’t hold my interest. Then again, a full time job at a D.C. dispensary is a pretty darned far fetched piece of fiction. Getting murdered because of it is just plain stupid. How in the world did this show manage 9 full seasons?
Duncan, you’re watching too much Tee-Vee. Put the remote down and take a hit off this…
I stopped watching TeeVee back in 2003; couldn’t stand the lies anymore. I get my news (as opposed to ‘nooz’ read by blow-dried buffoons) from the Web…after suitable filtering via built-in BS detectors. Said detectors overload and fail-safe to null after only a few minutes of watching any Boob Tube.
And I’d swear the quality of discourse, never much good before I stopped, is noticeably much, much worse…or so it seems. At least as far as popular entertainment goes, it looks like The Marching Morons won.
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Well kaptin, putting the horrid acting, pathetically sad story line, and bush league direction and production of this particular TV show aside they most certainly had someone who knew the details of the arguments in favor of medicinal cannabis. Somehow I thought that might be inferred from the arcana of Egyptians using medicinal cannabis for hemorrhoid relief.
Should I presume that all of those pro-medicinal cannabis statements are lies since I saw them on a primetime TV show?
Nope, I was referring to the (very obvious) corporate control of the media manifesting itself at that time, with newsreaders acting as cheerleaders for the Af-Pak and Iraq Wars.
The same corp-rat control of media ‘gateways’ had been the bane of reformers in the past, as those corps have interlocking interests in maintaining prohibition.
Which is why until very recently you could not get an articulate reformer on any panel discussing the issue, only input from the ‘expected stereotype’ of the inarticulate, demi-conscious ‘stoner’. Which always served to bolster the LE side…which was always given the bigger microphone courtesy of those interlocking interests.
The Internet evened the score. The information gateways have been end-runned by it. More people know about cannabis’s ever-increasing catalog of beneficial uses. And they’re not buying the BS anymore. And that is reflected in our current successes.
It’s an exponential effect: people only interested in cannabis issues invariably are exposed to the varied aspects of prohibition which impinge upon it. History, politics, finance, etc., all come into play, and the seeker is exposed to an ever expanding sphere of knowledge. And is encouraged to act upon that knowledge. And an activist polity is the bane of the would-be lords and masters. The seemingly inflexible media status quo is bending to reflect a reality it can no longer dictate.
So…the LameStream Media is having to bow to the inevitable, and begin airing programs that are, if not positive on cannabis, at least are neutral. This to avoid irrelevance to an up-and-coming electorate that is used to alternate sources of media…and fully agrees to why they’re needed, from looking at the intelligence-insulting crap of not just ‘entertainment’, but by what purports to reflect reality as ‘TV News’.
This is one of the reasons that net neutrality is such an important issue; if “they” can also control access to information on the ‘net then this coalescing of ideas and efforts will be a one-off. Control is the issue. “They” want it. It is in the best interests of the country and the people that control is not ceded to “them”.
Doggie decoys for the DEA and your local terrorist group with badges:
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If I ever get another dog, I think I’ll name him Bulls-eye.
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