“YOU’RE SMOKING MARIJUANA!” yelled out Jackie.
Four men on the corner, taken by surprise, started laughing when they saw Jackie and her mother.
“Oh?” said the fourth. “I call it... reefers, muggles, cheeba cheeba, sinsemilla, sweet leaf and weee-” -from It's Just a Plant
LISNews mentioned a children's book on Pot. And all I have to say is, Crazy Talk... CRAZYTAAAALLK!!!! I don't have anything against educating kids on marijuana. But when a book tells horrifying and outrageous lies, I have to take a stand. On page ten, the mother takes the child to see her doctor about medical uses for marijuana. And the receptionist tells them to go right in to see the doctor (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!).
Forget the marijuana. What magical fantasy land do these people inhabit that they get to see the doctor without a 40 minute wait? And that's with an appointment.
I'm not going to point out that the girl gets the above four pot smokers arrested by broadcasting their activity to the whole block, so that passing cops could hear her, but what's really amusing is one chart on the last page. It shows how arrests for marijuana possession have gone up over the years. Note the biggest spike in arrests. I want to hear the mother explain that:
"In the United States, during the 1990's, the Republicans made all the rules, and since they hated President Clinton so much, they were making it harder for him to score weed by arresting everyone who might give him some."
"Are Republicans bad people, mommy."
"The worst."
"But the chart shows that more people can buy weed without getting arrested when there's a Republican president."
"You got me there. It's a mystery, for sure."
"Are you going to vote Republican for the next president?"
"Yeah, when Hell freezes over. Come on, we need to got stock up for the next four years."
