THE NAUGHTY GIRL

The Naughty Girl: Maryjane.

I was over on Texlahoma's page, and he was, once again, talking about the 420.

Alcohol can go to parties with an escort, but Maryjane is a bad girl. You'd better see her at night, in strange neighbourhoods, or alone, and don't tell anyone. You know why?

She doesn't need big business, or lobbyists. She doesn't create enough illness for insurance companies and hospitals to feed off of. Methadone is actually far more addictive physically than heroin. The high just isn't as good. And you don't have to steal to get it- the government will give it away free! And free for life! Talk about pushers!

And pot is social. And "higher" vibration than other drugs. At best you will feel closer to God, as the Rastafari do, and the worst is you might fall asleep or get paranoid. You never hear "A pot junkie robbed someone to buy weed." Or, "A stoner jumped off a roof cuz he thought he could fly."

And any cop will tell you that he'd rather deal with a stoned person than a drunk person.

Compared to the amount of work (and danger) involved in growing tobacco, marijuana is easy. Tobacco growers have to deal with all sorts of pests and disease. People that work in tobacco fields often get cancer and other tobacco related illnesses. Cigarette companies are already losing customers to weed.

Alcohol will fund a million campaigns before it will let Maryjane take away one dime of it's ill-gotten treasure. The Xanax kings and the Zoloft queens will raise their armies against this usurper. There is big money in pharmo-drugs, and in illness. And that in turn effects the profits for insurance companies, and hospitals, and all the re-hab clinics. (I have never heard of anyone going to a rehab place just for pot. EVER.)

There is even big money in the War on Drugs.

Anyhow, that is why the government fights against legalizing it-- because big Pharmo bucks, and alcohol lobbyists, and cigarette money are fighting MaryJane. There's no legitimate argument against it.

Any why is our society obsessed with keeping a lid on altered states of conscioussness. What are we afraid of? Being drunk can be as disorienting as being really stoned or tripping, why isn't our society afraid of drunks? Their drivers kill people every year around major holidays.

Stoned people just want to stay in! I remember calling Pink Dot one time and -- I am not kidding- ordering cherry vanilla ice cream, a hershey with almonds, a bottle of red wine, a bag of doritos, and nag champa incense-- which they didn't have.

I wonder if all of those straight people that got freaked out when they tried pot realise that not everyone has that reaction? And the stereotypical stoner-- the kid still living in his parent's basement, never leaving the house-- that kid just happens to be a stoner sometimes. There are plenty of late twenty somethings in surburbia, leeching off their parents, that DON'T smoke pot.

So stop blaming my best girl! All she does is enhance the reality you already live in.

UNTIL NEXT TIME, TOODLE ON!!!