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July 8th, 2010 | 
Author: 
Dan Calabrese
I guess it’s time for legions of marijuana smokers to descend upon the state capital in Missouri, calling for legislators to die in a fire and declaring them to be dickheads and the Antichrist. Because more of their chemical-induced fun has just been taken away.
Missouri has now become the fifth state to ban a sort of synthetic marijuana called K2, which looks a lot like incense and which you could heretofore purchase at gas stations and the like.
Your reason for living.
The appeal of K2 is that it mimics the high you get from smoking pot, but doesn’t show up on any drug tests, so you can continue to spend your life in a stupor without your employer noticing – except for the fact that your reports read like lyrics from a Pink Floyd album.
Poor dears. Every time someone points out negative information about marijuana, or even a fake version thereof, they act as though their child has been kidnapped. I write columns on this page about everything from economics to foreign policy and all points in between.
On any other topic, I’ll get a handful of comments, many of which disagree and almost all of which calmly and rationally explain where, in the opinion of the reader, I’ve gone wrong.
When I write about marijuana, I easily get 10 to 20 times the comments I get on any other subject, and the comments are nothing if not colorful. Here are a few choice snippets from comments on my column last Thursday regarding a possible link between pot-smoking and bipolar-related psychosis:
- A false prophet and an anti-christ. That is what you are.
- die in a fire, mr Dan Calabrese, fucking little pig
- Unamused and disgusted that you would take the government coin to peddle political piddle. (I’m getting government money for writing this? When? – DC)
- Please stop wasting valuable paper you hack!!
- what a twat,really what a complete dickhead,
- Dan Calabrese have you had your mental state evaluated by an upstanding psychiatrist lately?
- What a fucking asshole!!!..
- Fuck you.
Dude. And it was my understanding that the weed makes you mellow. Guess not.
To be fair, there were some more substantive arguments offered, and you can see the whole thread here. But everyone danced around the point. I noted one study that indicated there might be a causal connection between pot-smoking and eventual psychosis, and pointed out that it’s stupid to risk it because no one needs to get stoned – when God has already put the natural chemicals into your body that allow you to enjoy life to the fullest without introducing any foreign ones.
Pot smokers are determined to deny any possible negative effect, no matter how plausible, because they are bound and determined to keep getting stoned. They. Cannot. Stop. It will ruin their lives.
How dumb are pot smokers? One guy on Facebook actually compared the ingestion of THC to get him high to reading books. And of course, everyone tells me I have no right to express an opinion about it if I’ve never actually tried it – as if getting stoned gives you all the information you need about its long-term health effects.
Stop any drunk driver on New Years Eve and ask him about cirrhosis of the liver. I’m sure he’ll be an expert! At least if you think like a pot-smoker thinks.
There is a reason pot-smokers direct all this anger at me every time I write about their cherished weed: Although they deny it, they are addicted – psychologically if not physically, and quite possibly both. A few of them even go so far as to admit it, telling how smoking pot is their method for coping with life.
This is why pot-smokers flood my comment section with this sort of stuff every time I write on the subject. This is why they tell me on “cannabis forums” to “eat your own shit,” which is a funny comment coming from a pot-smoker, who is always insisting pot is great because it’s from nature. Dude. So is shit. You go first.
You react with great hysteria when someone threatens the thing without which you have decided you cannot live. You regard the carrier of this message as a mortal enemy who must be destroyed at all costs. If you depend on your freedom to get stoned in order to make it through life, you cannot – cannot – stand by while anyone points out the potential problems associated with what you’re doing.
You will come up with nullification arguments to try to silence this information. No one who hasn’t tried it can say anything! Thus, everyone but pot-smokers are eliminated from the discussion. Nice try, Arlo.
Look, I realize that the blowback against the war on drugs the past 20 years or so has been fierce, and somewhat effective. So many people refuse to deal with the realities of life, the pot-smoking population has grown exponentially, which I guess is why I get five or six comments when I write about taxes but 50 to 100 when I write about this.
But just because growing numbers of people believe something – and do something – doesn’t mean they’re right. It might just mean that society is spiraling out of control as people abandon all pretense of self-restraint and give themselves over to every conceivable indulgence.
Perhaps the same willful denial that has led the nation to the brink of fiscal calamity is enabling these people to wreak havoc on the natural chemicals in their brain without giving a thought to the long-term effects.
And even if I one day find myself as a minority of one, I really don’t care. When information comes out about the dangers of marijuana smoking, I will tell you about them, and the inevitable comments will be predictable.
If you are bound and determined to go through life stupefied, I can’t stop you. But I am bound and determined to talk about the price you and others are liable to pay for your rejection of sound, sobriety. And you can’t stop me either.
Have at it, stoners.
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One need not travel to China to find indigenous cultures lacking human rights. America leads the world in percentile behind bars, thanks to the ongoing open season on hippies, commies, and non-whites in the war on drugs. Cops get good performance reviews for shooting Phish-fans in a barrel. If we’re all about spreading liberty abroad, then why mix the message at home? Peace on the home front would enhance global credibility.
The drug czar’s Rx for prison fodder costs dearly, as lives are flushed down expensive tubes. My shaman’s second opinion is that psychoactive plants are God’s gift. Behold, it’s all good. When Eve ate the apple, she knew a good apple, and an evil prohibition. Canadian Marc Emery was extradited to prison for helping American farmers reduce U. S. demand for Mexican pot.
The CSA (Controlled Substances Act of 1970) reincarnates Al Capone, endangers homeland security, and throws good money after bad. Fiscal policy burns tax dollars to root out the number-one cash crop in the land, instead of taxing sales. Society rejected the plague of prohibition, but it mutated. Apparently, SWAT teams don’t need no stinking amendment.
Nixon passed the CSA on the false assurance that the Schafer Commission would later justify criminalizing his enemies, but he underestimated Schafer’s integrity. No amendments can assure due process under an anti-science law without due process itself. Psychology hailed the breakthrough potential of LSD, until the CSA shut down research, and pronounced that marijuana has no medical use.
The RFRA (Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993) allows Native American Church members to eat peyote, which functions like LSD. Americans shouldn’t need a specific church membership or an act of Congress to obtain their birthright freedom of religion. God’s children’s free exercise of religious liberty may include entheogen sacraments to mediate communion with Him.
Freedom of speech presupposes freedom of thought. The Constitution doesn’t enumerate any governmental power to embargo diverse states of mind. How and when did government usurp this power to coerce conformity? The Mayflower sailed to escape coerced conformity. Legislators who would limit cognitive liberty lack jurisdiction.
Common-law holds that adults are the legal owners of their own bodies. The Founding Fathers undersigned that the right to the pursuit of happiness is inalienable. Socrates said to know your self. Mortal lawmakers should not presume to thwart the intelligent design that molecular keys unlock spiritual doors. Persons who appreciate their own free choice of path in life should tolerate seekers’ self-exploration. Liberty is prerequisite for tracking drug-use intentions and outcomes.
Here is another FUCK YOU!
There is no freedom in this country and “Intelligent” assholes like you are the blame.
dan you are an idiot yes on 19
DOH!
METH IS DEATH POT IS NOT.
The law is wrong not the bong, smack is wack, coke is a joke, this is why we toke, booze and a pill will kill.
Make It Legal Make It Green/WHEN 10,000 PEOPLE MAIL $4.20 TO THE IOWA BOARD OF PHARMACY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjH61Gw_AcI
make it legal, make it green.
Dan
I would guess that the reason you get so many responses to your marijuana rants is that, unlike you, a majority of Americans are still concerned with life, liberty and allowing other people to pursuit their own happiness. Most Americans, as opposed to politicians, believe that jails are for people who harm other people not just themselves. Missouri did not ban K2, as you claim, only failed to regulate it. Now Missouri has only made it possible for a person to be arrested and jailed for doing something that harmed no one else. They have also, by failing to license law abiding merchants to sell this product, created a black market where unlicensed business people will hire minor children to sell the contraband for them.
It is simply impossible to ban a substance that people desire. You can make a weed worth more then gold, you can make a weed so valuable that people will kill to acquire or control it, but to pretend that Missouri could actually prevent a person from acquiring something that brings them happiness is moronic and idiotic.
To pretend that there is any benefit for society by caging people for choosing to putting substances into their body, just because someone else does not approve, is as un-American as a person can get.
Someday society will figure out that prohibition of anything goes against both the laws of God and nature, until then we will have people like you who believe that people should be kept in cages at great expense to save them from themselves. Seem a little perverse if you ask me.
Hooray for wasting even more money on jailing people who want to indulge in a little fake weed.
Uh oh Dan, you’re not being honest… again.
You cite some of the responses that you get when you write about marijuana but you chose to list only those that are poorly worded, poorly thought out or just down right offensive. If you were fair, you’d list the reasoned responses too.
“There is a reason pot-smokers direct all this anger at me every time I write about their cherished weed: Although they deny it, they are addicted – psychologically if not physically”
Is that right Dan? All of the people that are unhappy that you’re helping to perpetuate the jailing of people for no valid reason are all addicted to marijuana?
Dan, when you say “the pot-smoking population has grown exponentially”, could you possibly back that up with some data?
Jailing people for marijuana is irrational plain and simple. If you stick to the truth and leave out the fear tactics, most people don’t support jail for plant possessors
VA DIRECTIVE 2010-035 Medical Marijuana. (for PTSD)
As a long disabled Vet using medmj on advice of my doctors at the VA, you are terribly ill informed on this subject. 1000′s of Veteran patients are now legally using medmj. Extremely helpful for PTSD.
The ignorance and irrational rages do nothing to help we disabed vets.
Open your mind, before you open your mouth.
Did you listen what Mc cain said about that?
I quitted before 26 days and this time its going very successfull, my secret is quite simple
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