Hi all,
after having been busted for growing recently …. I have to go to a bunch of counselling … etc. AA classes ….. you name it.
I was lucky to stay out of jail. I wasn’t drivng under the influence …. not selling …..
okay … I broke the law and got caught. I’m doing what the courts have told me I have to do.
but as I sit in these classes its rediculous. The definition (by their own accord at AA) is someone who starts and can’t stop. Well you can only get so stoned no matter how much you smoke.
I sit in my court ordered counselling across from people who were ……… well one was busted because as he was eating his supper a cop walked past his car and said he smelled pot. The guy said he’d not even smoked any (I have little reason to doubt his honesty .. in this class …. its no shame to talk about such things) but he looks like a stoner .. and anyway he has some on him and got busted for possession.
the guy wasn’t bothering anybody. What a threat to society!
This sort of thing happens everyday. People who have jobs, pay taxes … and in every way are going about their lives not bothering anybody. Finding themselves in a position where in some cases they could literally do more time than if they killed somebody. That’s no exaggeration.
Now what really bothers me is the people in charge of making our laws are the people who grew up in the times of the late 60s … early 70s ….. and these people for the most part … if not having done it themeselves at some time ….. at the very least have a good understanding of what a pot smoker is capable of …. you know …… serious threats to society like falling asleep in front of the tv. getting the munchies and eating everything in the fridge. Serious stuff like that.
Why, Why, Why? don’t they get the balls to own up to what they themselves know?
I know part of it is money. Pot is a money making deal for the underworld. They don’t want to see it legal so their influence will likely never let it get that far. But the decriminalization is boggling. Who is it that is fighting this so hard?
I don’t have any answers. I don’t understand the thinking behind most of it. If I could at least blame it on the people who make money on prohibiton I could begin to understand it but that doesn’t even hold water in terms of decriminalization.
Keep on selling booze. that only results in huge number of related deaths every year for everything to killing innocents by those who drive DUI … to health issues that are life-threatening serious.
That’s okay. And don’t even get me started on tobacco .. and I smoke.
There’s even a fuel that can be made from pot seeds that burns completely clean …. they say if it was grown on such a level to supply enough to make fuel .. (not to mention paper saving all those trees) that the fields would literally produce enough oxygen to replace the loss of our diminishing rain forests.
Where is the wisdom? Who are these people so willing to comdemn these otherwise innocent people to prison for doing something that has no effect on others? Especially those sick and that could use it for medical reasons. These are the really sick-minded IMO.
Oh and btw: thanks to the fact that alcohol leaves your system quickly . .. I can and do drink regularly now. before I hardly ever drank. by the time I get thru this bullshit I’ll be lucky if I’m not an alcoholic ….. thanks to the gov’s infinite wisdom. I can already tell its going to be hard to stop drinking and switch back once I get this under my belt.
everybody has their “fix” .. whether its eating, drinking … or kniitting …… as long as its not hurting anybody else ….. why in the world would you persecute them?