Happy 4/20-the Best Day of year!
Yea! I love today! It is a day where any American can celebrate the fact that no where in our Constitution says that the Federal Government can regulate what substances I can put into my body. Especially consider its a damn weed that you can grow in your backyard that will cure most alignments-14 States have Medicinal Marijuana laws and 7 States have laws to allow dispensaries to distribute the prescribed medicine to patient instead having them grow at their home and be subjected to Federal laws. This shows that marijuana has medicinal properties (that is why we have cannabinoid receptors in our brain-we've evolved this into our body due to our usage since the beginning of Homo Sapiens). The first recorded use of medicinal marijuana in recorded history is 1500 BC in ancient Egypt or about the time of Moses's exodus (did Moses and Aaron smoke a hookah?)....Ancient India , China, Greece, medieval Islamic world all the way till today. Check out the history, medicinal benefits andwhy it can be good for you here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_cannabis#United_States
This why Pharmaceutical companies and the Alcohol industry are the biggest contributors to the Partnership for a Drug Free America: they want to keep Marijuana a Schedule I narcotic according to the DEA and our federal government....regardless that it is not a harmful drug. Granted it is not for everyone, but alcohol and cigarettes kill more people each year then marijuana. YOU CANNOT OVERDOSE FROM MARIJUANA. It is physically impossible.
Legally speaking, all marijuana laws are based on racism. This first laws restricting cannabis were in the southwestern US due to the influx of Mexican immigrants who used the plant in both a recreational and spiritual manner who came to work and did for cheap labor, which took jobs from the white majority considering jobs were scarce at the time. However like the first cocaine laws which were started due to the fact that cocaine was given to the black dockerworkers so they could labor for more hours, the white majority fear these "darker-skinned" people will use the drug and become violent, killing men and raping women. The first state laws against the use of cannabis were passed in California in 1913, then the Uniform State Narcotic Act in 1925, the creation of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics in 1930 and finally the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937. That act made possession or transfer of cannabis illegal throughout the United States under federal law, excluding medical and industrial uses, in which an expensive excise tax was required. However, no one could get these stamps from the Federal Government; hence the initial federal criminalization of cannabis. Nixon created the DEA in 1973 and the War on Drugs had begun. Please watch The Great Hope-America's War on Drugs documentary at the bottom of The Book of Micah as it gives an excellent history of the War on drugs since the creation of the DEA.
This is also day for recreational users who can unite knowing that millions across the Earth are lighting up with them. Collective conscience is a great thing. Now lots of people light up everyday, but 4/20 is like the cannabis smoker's Easter, Hanukkah, Ramadan, Kwanzaa and St. Patrick's day (its the green-God bless the Irish-we saved civilization-see Thomas Kahill's book) all rolled into one. While others stumble to their car from the bar and either end up with a OUI or even worse, kill someone or themselves in a crash, why can't I or any American walk into a shop like the one's in Amsterdam, smoke a joint and then go about the day? If you get an OUI for smoking pot, then you shouldn't be smoking in the first place. For the other 95% of cannabis smokers, please let us smoke in peace. Each year at the University of Vermont in Burlington, student gather together and light up on the front lawn. Next year we should smoke a bong on the White House lawn-I bet Obama puffs.
As with Fox news, I normally wouldn't post anything from The Huffington Post but I came across The History of 4/20 article and it was pretty good-give a read:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/20/420-meaning-the-true-stor_n_543854.html
Anyway, I got to get back to the celebration-I've recorded Lost 2nd greatest show ever (The Simpsons they are #1 of course) and Celtics vs Heat playoff game, plus....I got have a bong hit to brighten up my day!
Yea! I love today! It is a day where any American can celebrate the fact that no where in our Constitution says that the Federal Government can regulate what substances I can put into my body. Especially consider its a damn weed that you can grow in your backyard that will cure most alignments-14 States have Medicinal Marijuana laws and 7 States have laws to allow dispensaries to distribute the prescribed medicine to patient instead having them grow at their home and be subjected to Federal laws. This shows that marijuana has medicinal properties (that is why we have cannabinoid receptors in our brain-we've evolved this into our body due to our usage since the beginning of Homo Sapiens). The first recorded use of medicinal marijuana in recorded history is 1500 BC in ancient Egypt or about the time of Moses's exodus (did Moses and Aaron smoke a hookah?)....Ancient India , China, Greece, medieval Islamic world all the way till today. Check out the history, medicinal benefits andwhy it can be good for you here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_cannabis#United_States
This why Pharmaceutical companies and the Alcohol industry are the biggest contributors to the Partnership for a Drug Free America: they want to keep Marijuana a Schedule I narcotic according to the DEA and our federal government....regardless that it is not a harmful drug. Granted it is not for everyone, but alcohol and cigarettes kill more people each year then marijuana. YOU CANNOT OVERDOSE FROM MARIJUANA. It is physically impossible.
Legally speaking, all marijuana laws are based on racism. This first laws restricting cannabis were in the southwestern US due to the influx of Mexican immigrants who used the plant in both a recreational and spiritual manner who came to work and did for cheap labor, which took jobs from the white majority considering jobs were scarce at the time. However like the first cocaine laws which were started due to the fact that cocaine was given to the black dockerworkers so they could labor for more hours, the white majority fear these "darker-skinned" people will use the drug and become violent, killing men and raping women. The first state laws against the use of cannabis were passed in California in 1913, then the Uniform State Narcotic Act in 1925, the creation of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics in 1930 and finally the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937. That act made possession or transfer of cannabis illegal throughout the United States under federal law, excluding medical and industrial uses, in which an expensive excise tax was required. However, no one could get these stamps from the Federal Government; hence the initial federal criminalization of cannabis. Nixon created the DEA in 1973 and the War on Drugs had begun. Please watch The Great Hope-America's War on Drugs documentary at the bottom of The Book of Micah as it gives an excellent history of the War on drugs since the creation of the DEA.
This is also day for recreational users who can unite knowing that millions across the Earth are lighting up with them. Collective conscience is a great thing. Now lots of people light up everyday, but 4/20 is like the cannabis smoker's Easter, Hanukkah, Ramadan, Kwanzaa and St. Patrick's day (its the green-God bless the Irish-we saved civilization-see Thomas Kahill's book) all rolled into one. While others stumble to their car from the bar and either end up with a OUI or even worse, kill someone or themselves in a crash, why can't I or any American walk into a shop like the one's in Amsterdam, smoke a joint and then go about the day? If you get an OUI for smoking pot, then you shouldn't be smoking in the first place. For the other 95% of cannabis smokers, please let us smoke in peace. Each year at the University of Vermont in Burlington, student gather together and light up on the front lawn. Next year we should smoke a bong on the White House lawn-I bet Obama puffs.
As with Fox news, I normally wouldn't post anything from The Huffington Post but I came across The History of 4/20 article and it was pretty good-give a read:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/20/420-meaning-the-true-stor_n_543854.html
Anyway, I got to get back to the celebration-I've recorded Lost 2nd greatest show ever (The Simpsons they are #1 of course) and Celtics vs Heat playoff game, plus....I got have a bong hit to brighten up my day!
Go Celtics
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