In honor of my 420th post

[darkmaestro019]

This is old news, but out of all the information I've devoured on the many, many races of plants slated for genocide, this infuriates me the MOST.

In its March 10 response to Paul, the GAO declared, in essence, that the truth or falsity of ONDCP's statements is irrelevant. "ONDCP is specifically charged with the responsibility for `taking such actions as necessary to oppose any attempt to legalize the use' of certain controlled substances such as marijuana," wrote GAO General Counsel Anthony Gamboa. "Given this role, we do not see a need to examine the accuracy of the Deputy Director's individual statements in detail."

http://www.commondreams.org/news2004/0312-06.htm

Translation: The government has given itself permission to lie about marijuana being dangerous, because it's necessary in order to keep the dangerous marijuana illegal.

:eyes:

I'm no good at keeping all the logical fallacies straight, but this one seems on par with Scotty giving them warp technology in the past so that warp technology would exist in the future. I can't think of cute fake Latin for that. Giganticus bullshiticus?

It doesn't matter if the REASONS it's controlled are utterly false?

Could you at least grow the balls to say that legal marijuana for medicine or recreation would put a big-old dent in Big Pharma, in the lucrative property-seizing-and-reselling, in the lucrative prison business, in the lucrative alcohol business?

Alcohol is my least favorite drug ever. It's cost me loved ones and peace and given me nice psychological scars. Crappy "high" crappy side effects, tendency to drive into people and kill them, make your family miserable, wreck your liver....oh yeah, but this one is legal! And cheap! So glad the government is looking out for me!

Do I drink? Oh yes. Usually when I can't get any green. I have never regretted my actions while stoned, except perhaps eating ALL the ice cream, but boy, I have a laundry list of shit I've done or said while drunk I wish I could delete. Some of it is immortalized in posts here. :P

GAO stands for Government ACCOUNTABILITY Office, ne? Fantastic. They're in charge of making sure everyone crosses Ts and dots Is and doesn't do the twist unless Simon says. I feel really safe and protected and REPRESENTED by these lying bastards. This Mobius-strip false logic makes me want to pelt them with large bales of flaming marijuana. Here. NOW it's dangerous. Plus I've always wanted to build a trebuchet.

People smoke pot and discover that they do NOT, in fact, melt into the boneless lump shown on that infuriating intelligence-insulting commercial, nor do they lose all brain activity, nor do they freak out and become rapist gun-toting maniacs, nor do they have much in the way of ANY bad side effects except thirst and getting arrested, fired, suspended, etc. Then, the fledgling psychonaut thinks, wow. Perhaps They have been lying to me about EVERYTHING ELSE. Maybe crack and heroin and meth are really harmless, too! I should get some of those next time!

The negative effects I've experienced due to marijuana use have been WHOLLY ARTIFICIAL and inflicted from outside. Hmm. I wonder, if it IS dangerous, why do you have to lie? Shouldn't the truth be provable with evidence?

DISCLAIMER: This is just a dream. I would never use illegal drugs because that would be illegal, and uh, wrong. And Cheney would kill a kitten. This post doesn't exist, either. You're hallucinating it. And Bush is fine and upstanding and the sky is as green as demon weed.

EDITS: Boy, do I ever suck at HTML

EDIT: I swear I'll shut up, but I have to take this chance to pimp www.erowid.org. It's a gigantic, library, of all manner of information--legal, medical, anecdotal, experiences, from layman's terms to medical journal type stuff on every drug you ever heard of and hundreds you haven't. Knowledge is power. In particular, you may wish to check out ibogaine. Stunning anecdotal success with STOPPING chemical addictions--but un-copyrightable and therefore of no interest to Big Pharma.

[acmejack]

1. That's one of the biggest changes in our Government under the * admin!

They used to at least to try to hide it when they deceived us! Now they just are in your face about lying to us. Now anything they say can be assumed to be bullshit unless it can be independently proved to be otherwise, a sad change from years past. Perhaps I have merely been stripped of the vestiges of my naivete'!

Either way it sucks to be us...

[fiveleafclover]

3. If you buy a bag of weed, you're supporting terrorists!

God, how I hated that commercial.

[darkmaestro019]

4. I think that's the core of what infuriates me so about it

...the insult to our intelligence. Either they think we're too dumb to grasp this, or they don't care if we grasp it or not because they KNOW we can't do anything about it. Like vote them out, for example.

I know what you mean about the naivety--every time I think I've finally grasped how very evil they are, I learn something else. I don't know if it's possible to be TOO cynical anymore.

[fiveleafclover]

2. Bless you, my child

You said everything I've been thinking all these years. The next bowl I pack will be in your honor.

[darkmaestro019]

5. (hug, smile) Thanks. I was waiting to get pounced by chemophobes. nt

[hootinholler]

6. Faster Mary! Faster! n/t

[dogday]

7. Legalize Pot!!!!

[Richard D]

8. This wouldn't be you now, would it?

[acmejack]

9. Could be!

The VA nurse told me that I had THC in my last urine test. I pointed out that I already told them that I it was present there.

btw, I prefer a vaporizer, much more efficient!

[darkmaestro019]

10. I have one, but the taste makes me very unhappy...

Do you find that the effects are the same? That it takes a lot less to work? If the second is true, I'd be willing to give it another go, but the burning-hay, sunflower-seed-hull taste made me cough for SO LONG that I felt that plain old bowl and lighter was LESS harmful.

[darkmaestro019]

11. Aw, someone voted for me. : ) Thank you! eom