yeah yeah yeah

And yes! to the effects of alcohol (often scary and violent) vs. herb (almost always mellow). Newspaper article about a homeless shelter, some Moral Guardian citizen crusader complained that some of the residents were smoking pot. Person working at the shelter says, "So what? Worst thing that happens, they eat all…

Thanks anyaroses, but I'd have to graduate college first. UCB spat my clueless self out freshman year, and I went straight to the cubicle from there. It's all I've ever done for a living.
(see: Woobie)

And that approach, that mentality, creates a feedback loop. We spend more public money on bombing and invading other countries, and arming them against each other; and locking more of our citizens up than every other country in the world. So we have the military-industrial complex Ike warned about (after he created…

Thanks Keanu for that last paragraph.
There's a lot of stuff going into the War On Drugs prohibitionist policy clusterfrak. Archmage cites some of them.
There's also the approach we seem to take to every problem - hit it harder. When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And pretty much the only thing…

Adrien Brody
King Kong's got nothing on him.

anyaroses: "Pot is the only way I get through my mind-numbing, soul-crushing office job." Yes. Though I only got into wake-and-bake my last couple years on the job (before they laid off nearly the entire word processing staff), and never brought it with me to work, 17 years in a cubicle is definitely an environment…

And no, legalization of pot and ending the "War on Drugs" treatment of heroin, meth and other really nasty stuff (treating users on a medical basis, while going hard after big-time providers and their money), will not solve the drug problem. Because the problem is not the substance; the problem is what brings people…

When I was handing out pro-Prop. 19 leaflets http://www.peaceandfreedom…. at a Hemp Fest trade show, I got several responses along the lines of, in the words of one guy, "If they legalize it, I'm out of the game!"

There's also the question of legalization vs. decriminalization. Anarchist/libertarians, and drug dealers, prefer decrim, they like the black market, wild west setup. They argue against legalization because that would mean regulation and taxation, the two worst things in the world.

(Northern white racists have used that method too; in the South it was more institutionalized)

Re: jury nullification - yeah, Southern white racists have used that method to make sure that no white person would be convicted for killing a black person. Meanwhile, pre-Civil War, that method was also used to make fugitive slave laws unenforceable.

@LEGALIZE IT: You refer to tobacco as a "candy-ass drug" - well, it killed both my parents, and kills thousands every year, it just takes a very long time to do it. And it's one of the most addictive substances there is; pot's "addictive" only in the sense that video games and junk food are (and they do go together…

Also @Foreign Person, Hilarious also because the African-American actors made their "jive" dialogue up on the spot.

oh and ah, it's …
'case you ponderin'

My favorite moment: the quarter-beat in the line
"I am the creator. of a television show …"

These guns. Karate. Why?
The right wing extremists. Disarm them and us liberals will disarm.

like Ricky Gervais in … Extras?

I read that Lenin was shot. But it took a couple years for it to kill him.

True, not a secret, but still relatively unknown - hence everyone here talking about how Airplane! was a spoof of "the Airport movies". So some people didn't know. So I thought I'd tell them.