If God Didn't Want it Here, it Would Be Gone like the Dinosaurs; Marijuana is Here to Stay

In fact, in the past, I have smoked probably enough pot to keep one grower in business for a year. That is how much pot I used to smoke. Back then, I didn't smoke it for other reasons than to be stoned. Stoned is fun. When you are stoned everything is funny. And at the end of it all, after you have laughed at a fly on the wall, you eat a bunch of food, sit and vegetate in front of the television. Then you fall asleep.

However there are people in the world who want you to believe that if you smoke a little bit of reefer, you are going to end up doing something really stupid, like trying to shove your entire closed fist into your mouth just to see if you can.

I'm sorry, but those people who produced that commercial and the commercials like it are wrong. Also wrong is the assumption that people are going to try to to more lethal substances if they try pot once. There are legions of people right now, people who have not ever even done more than watch one of those very biased, one-sided commercials, believing that pot is the most evil substance on the planet.

These are the same people, or at least a lot of them, who vilify people like me so that they and people like them can continue to pop pills and wash said pills down with a shot of vodka. Their reasoning is that the pills are legal. Their assumption is that since the pills are legal, then they are also safe. Yeah, safe like too many shots of vodka, right?

I have friends who have family who are like those people who would vilify me because of the things that I choose to do in order that my menstral cramps are easier to deal with, my carpal-tunnel syndrome not so painful, and a myriad of other aches and pains are not so painful that I cannot deal with them. I get to eat and laugh and then woo-hoo! I even get to go to sleep, and I don't have to pop any pills to do it.

You cannot tell someone who is hopelessly addicted to the hope that they won't get addicted to the pills which they don't even realize that they are addicted to. Amoung those addicted are golf course maintenance workers, judges and lawyers, doctors, radio personalities, grandmothers, grandfathers, and yes, even and especially housewives. There are even a few teenagers who get into their parents' prescription bottles and take their parents' medication.
Whoever it was that said that addiction is a family trait wasn't lying.

I am not addicted to pot. I like it. It works and it does the job that I need it to do when I need it, which is fairly few and far between these days. There is no daily regimen and even though I do have to see a doctor to get the prescription, I can refill my prescription when I need to and there are no DEA guidelines that need to be followed. No traditional pharmacist will tell me that I have to come back in "X" amount of days and the price for my meds is set in stone. You can't find that anywhere in the world in any pharmacy that is not deemed "alternative". I'm a pretty darned alternative chick, by the way, all the way down to the way that i pray and to the God Whom I pray to (I call Him Akua).

Why is this plant illegal still anyway? My guesses are that there are too many pharmaceutical companies with too much to lose. There are too many politicians with too much money at stake. There are too many people addicted to too many chemicals and that means too much money wiill be lost to too many growers who the powers that be lovingly refer to as criminals.

Okay, so some...no, many growers are also felons, but there are many who are growing their gardens for the benefit of those who have chosen to do themselves and Mother Earth a favor by utilizing what has been here longer than the DEA, longer than the Federal Government, and longer than anyone reading this right now. It is ridiculous that this benign plant that has so many uses is illegal to own, to grow, to cultivate medicine from.

But is is perfectly fine to be prescribed 100 Hydrocodone pills at a time, and fine that even though the dosage instructions tell the user how many and when to take these pills, said user still has the option to take way, way more of said pill, right?

Which brings me to my next good point-
If Marijuana were to be made more legal than it is now in the states where it is legal, this would mean lower profits for the pharmaceutical companies. Not only the drug makers, but also the hospitals would lose money, because they would no longer be treating the same number of patients for the treatment of prescription overdose. Add to that list of industries which would lose money are the privately owned treatment facilities. I am sure that there are plenty more to add to this list, but I cannot think of them right now.

Marijauana is not the evil in this battle. The evil in this battle is the closed-minded thinking that because someone in a suit and tie who holds public office says that it is dangerous and evil, that it is indeed, evil.

Until it is that the powers that be understand the medicinal value in this plant is real, I and many others l like me will continue to be labeled as also dangerous criminals.

Oh well, I've been thought of as worse than this. Better to be a dope-fiend than a whore, I'd say.
Of course, whoring about is a misdemeanor.
Medicating myself naturally, though, with my own two hands, is a felony.

So much for the biblical thinking of "Give a man a fish and he eats once. Teach him to fish and he eats for a lifetime." I learned to plant, so I could feel better for the rest of my life. But if I plant, I go to jail.

However, it is totally fine for me to spend 100 dollars on a pill that may or may not make me sick to my stomach, may or may not make me dependent on it, may or may not give me an allergic reaction to which I might react so badly as to die, right?

Yep.
Right.