My wife, our two kids and I went to go pick up my medication today from the on-base pharmacy. On the way there we get into a bit of traffic and I notice this S.U.V. in front of us.

The first thing I think is, “Lol, gas prices go down and the S.U.V.’s come out of storage!”

And then I notice his bumper stickers. Now obviously this man has strong emotions tied into his political affiliation but…bumper stickers? And not just one, but…well count them.

Would you ever plaster your car with bumper stickers supporting something you feel passionate about?

Just a few feet down the road I see a man standing outside your typical tiny strip mall holding a sign. Now this sight is extremely common in San Antonio.

I’ve seen people standing outside in 105 degree weather in a full sized Big Foot costume to promote some pizza joints Big Foot special.

It might not anger me as much if the person holding the sign was an employee of the business but it never is. It is ALWAYS someone who lucks down on their luck. Poor. Perhaps homeless. Retarded. Who knows.

But it angers me to the point that I want to walk into those businesses and demand to see the manager, owner whatever and just get everything off my chest in a hopefully non-violent manner. It angers me that they would take advantage of someone by “hiring” them to hold their fucking obnoxious fucking signs on the side of a fucking 6 lane highway in the middle of the fucking summer when its 105 degrees out and no shade you worthless piece of fucking shit.

It angers me that in today’s so-called progressive society that these people are forced to degrade themselves, when you think about it, and sometimes putting themselves in life risking situations for a fucking paycheck that wouldn’t even cover the cost of filling up an average size car’s gas tank.

On a lighter note…

I’m taking a dump in the half finished bathroom after dinner at our favorite Greek restaurant when my wife walks by and goes: “Did you get my text?” And I’m like: “Dude, I’m taking a shit in a half-finished bathroom with the rollie pollies and spiders.” and she’s like “Oh, I figured you had your phone on you.” What the fuck? I’m not the big of a dork.

After I finish claiming the San Antonio Water System’s sewage plant for the sovereign state of Greece I go outside and get my phone from the vagon. When I get to my wife’s text I see this:

I applaud her on her ability to hold a camera phone steady while straining to keep her colon from dropping into the toilet.

I came across a fantastic article in the San Antonio Current:

In an editorial last week titled “Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss,” Austin-based journalist Alex Jones and partner Paul Joseph Watson cynically declared, “Mark our words — the causes that the liberal left has been fighting for over the last eight years will simply be forgotten just like conservatives were put to sleep when Bush came to power. Obama is the pacifier that the establishment needs to quiet the simmering anger amongst Americans that has been threatening to boil over. It will no longer be ‘fashionable’ to fight the police state amongst the political left.” 

I thought about that for a long long time. I hope this does not happen. It can not happen.

I was quite surprised today when I came across a article discussing the recent study that suggests marijuana may be useful against drug-resistant staph infections The article was from early September and I still can’t figure out how I missed it. Any ways here’s an excerpt from the article:

 

Chemicals in Marijuana May Fight MRSA

Study Shows Cannabinoids May Be Useful Against Drug-Resistant Staph Infections

By Caroline Wilbert
WebMD Health News

Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD

Sept. 4, 2008 — Chemicals in marijuana may be useful in fighting MRSA, a kind of staph bacterium that is resistant to certain antibiotics.

Researchers in Italy and the U.K. tested five major marijuana chemicals called cannabinoids on different strains of MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus). All five showed germ-killing activity against the MRSA strains in lab tests. Some synthetic cannabinoids also showed germ-killing capability. The scientists note the cannabinoids kill bacteria in a different way than traditional antibiotics, meaning they might be able to bypass bacterial resistance.

 

Too bad its still illegal. We can change that. it is simply going to take work. If you want to know more about what you can do to help legalize marijuana check out: LeagalizationOfMarijuana.Com

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I came across an article today that explained the history behind the 1937 Prohibitive Marihuana Tax Law, the bill that outlawed hemp.

From Popular Mechanics, Feb. 1938:
‘It has a short growing season…It can be grown in any state…The long roots penetrate and break the soil to leave it in perfect condition for the next year’s crop. The dense shock of leaves, 8 to 12 feet above the ground, chokes out weeds.

…hemp, this new crop can add immeasurably to American agriculture and industry.’

In 1916, the U.S. Government predicted that by the 1940s all paper would come from hemp and that no more trees need to be cut down. Government studies report that 1 acre of hemp equals 4.1 acres of trees. Plans were in the works to implement such programs.

In 1937, Dupont patented the processes to make plastics from oil and coal. Dupont’s Annual Report urged stockholders to invest in its new petrochemical division. Synthetics such as plastics, cellophane, celluloid, methanol, nylon, rayon, Dacron, etc., could now be made from oil. Natural hemp industrialization would have ruined over 80% of Dupont’s business.

Andrew Mellon became Hoover’s Secretary of the Treasury and Dupont’s primary investor. He appointed his future nephew-in-law, Harry J. Anslinger, to head the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.

Secret meetings were held by these financial tycoons. Hemp was declared dangerous and a threat to their billion dollar enterprises. For their dynasties to remain intact, hemp had to go. These men took an obscure Mexican slang word: ‘marihuana’ and pushed it into the consciousness of America.

On April 14, 1937, the Prohibitive Marihuana Tax Law or the bill that outlawed hemp was directly brought to the House Ways and Means Committee. This committee is the only one that can introduce a bill to the House floor without it being debated by other committees. The Chairman of the Ways and Means, Robert Doughton, was a Dupont supporter. He insured that the bill would pass Congress.

The good ol’ boy network strikes again. It’s always about money isn’t it. You would think that a drug that was once marketed to the American public as Refer Madness and whoes characteristics were once described as:

• a violent narcotic
• induces acts of shocking violence
• incurable insanity
• soul-destroying effects
• under the influence of the drug he killed his entire family with an axe
• more vicious, more deadly even than these soul-destroying drugs (heroin, cocaine) is the menace of marijuana

would be talked about in the same stern language by our current Drug Enforcement Agency.

I wonder what the Drug Enforcement Agency would have to say about marijuana…

 

“When marijuana is smoked, its effects begin immediately after the drug enters the brain and last from 1 to 3 hours. If marijuana is consumed in food or drink, the short-term effects begin more slowly, usually in 1/2 to 1 hour, and last longer, for as long as 4 hours. Smoking marijuana deposits several times more THC into the blood than does eating or drinking the drug.

Within a few minutes after inhaling marijuana smoke, an individual’s heart begins beating more rapidly, the bronchial passages relax and become enlarged, and blood vessels in the eyes expand, making the eyes look red. The heart rate, normally 70 to 80 beats per minute, may increase by 20 to 50 beats per minute or, in some cases, even double. This effect can be greater if other drugs are taken with marijuana.

As THC enters the brain, it causes a user to feel euphoric — or ‘high’ — by acting in the brain’s reward system, areas of the brain that respond to stimuli such as food and drink as well as most drugs of abuse. THC activates the reward system in the same way that nearly all drugs of abuse do, by stimulating brain cells to release the chemical dopamine.

A marijuana user may experience pleasant sensations, colors and sounds may seem more intense, and time appears to pass very slowly. The user’s mouth feels dry, and he or she may suddenly become very hungry and thirsty. His or her hands may tremble and grow cold. The euphoria passes after awhile, and then the user may feel sleepy or depressed. Occasionally, marijuana use produces anxiety, fear, distrust, or panic.”

 

Marijuana is illegal because some old white guy wanted to make sure his billion dollar empire didn’t suffer and because it makes you happy. A happy populace is not an easily controlled populace. The next big progressive step we take is the de-criminalization of hemp.

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