Trolls and Restaurants and Pot-Heads Oh My!

Half the fun of this article in "Food and Wine about potheads face-planting in the middle of their meals at Denver restaurants, is the phony hate-speech from obviously phony "conservative" commenter. These stereotypical haters have such obvious names as I_H8_hippies, which no self-respecting hippie-hater would ever take as an avatar name.

But by posting such drivel, the fake hippie haters give the pro-pot crowd an excuse for some pretty hateful speech themselves in defending their beloved weed. What's odd is that some of them, while defending weed as God's gift to man's anxiety, also are in the same crowd that wants people to have jail time for smoking tobacco. This "Brave New World" we live in has apparently found its "Soma" and one of the unexpected results is that food servers are now having to learn how to re-animate marijuana users who lose consciousness over their tortellini. Apparently, these true believers in the magic of "ganga" actually believe the hype that you can do all the THC you want and there will be no side effects. 

Let the brain damage begin.

© 2014 by Tom King

Legalize Pot - I'm Finally Convinced

(c) 2013 by Tom King

The Ron Paul people have finally convinced me {insert snort of derision} that legalization of pot is good for capitalism.  I even have a slogan for the campaign.

Legalize Pot 

Weed out the competition!

or this:

More Pot

Fewer dimwits in the workforce!

or this idea for a campaign name:

Mothers for the Legalization of Weed!

Bring our boys home 

(We have empty basements.........and pudding)

or this:

Make Pot More Expensive 

Nationalize the Marijuana Industry

or this:

Let's Put Pot Under Obamacare

Raise the price, reduce availability and destroy 

the marijuana industry all in one fell swoop!

Next time I'm asking the Bus driver to roll down the window....

I have a headache.

Tom

It’s Like the Pot Chamber of Commerce….

Hemp grower "inspects" the product.

(c) 2013 by Tom King

Okay, I just don't get it. I have got so many people who have my email or are friends on Facebook, Linked-In and other places that keep sending me stuff about what a great plant cannabis is and 1000 reasons it should be legal…….and how it could restore our faltering economy, cure mental diseases, heart conditions, liver ailments and hemorrhoids not to mention solve the housing crisis, end hunger and bring on world peace. Oddly enough most of these guys used to send me stuff about how I just had to vote for Ron Paul in the last election.

What I don’t get is why these dear people are so worried about why I don’t support the legalization of marijuana.  What’s their interest in promoting marijuana agriculture?  Are these guys frustrated Ag school graduates with degrees in agriculture who can’t make a living farming soybeans and corn and who envision starting a commercial pot farm and making a ton of money?  They tell me legalizing hemp would end the economic crisis almost overnight.

Let me see if I’ve got this right.  Marijuana (or hemp – that seems to be the term they prefer in this context) is capable of being used for all sorts of wonderful products like:

1.      Rope

2.      Paper

3.      Textiles

4.      Engine grease

5.      Building materials

6.      Paints resins and shellac

7.      Cures mental illness, heart disease, ringworm, gout, pleurisy and hemorrhoids

8.      Fuel for cars

9.      High fiber food products

10.   And 25,000 other products

Industrial hemp is bred for oil and fiber content, unlike marijuana which is bred for high THC content, so industrial hemp won’t make you high unless you smoke six joints or so or refine the THC out of the industrial hemp and concentrate it which, who’s going to do that since hemp is so useful for other things.

So what I want to know is why all these people are promoting the legalization of industrial hemp. They assure me it has nothing to do with its smoke-ability or that it is virtually identical to the kind that makes you high so that you can’t tell a few pot plants from the hemp ones if you salted the high THC variety around the industrial hemp fields.  Besides, pot, they tell me, isn’t a hallucinogen and doesn’t impair your ability to drive, work at your job or get your butt off your Mom’s sofa and find a job.  The police and all those government scientists are just making that stuff up because they are protecting the evil corporations.

So these guys, many of whom who used to be serious slackers back when we went to school together, have, for the good of society and our economy, decided to devote their free time (when they are not drinking Red Bull and playing Nintendo or Xbox) to community economic development by sending out links to youtube videos about what a great thing it would be if we could grow lots and lots of hemp and even better if we could grow regular pot because psychology is wrong about what causes mental illness and if we'd just legalize pot and we could put evil Big Pharma out of business.

What unselfish civic-minded citizens they all are.  Really.  Like a little Pot Chamber of Commerce.

I know!  I could grow a couple of hundred plants in my backyard and make all the rope I need! 

How cool would that be?

Tom