Ted Rall for May 16, 2011

Those Omega 3’s are important. *

Hemp bombs are cool. They work by making their victims relax, slow down and chill out. . Instead of fighting us, our enemies would get the munchies and invite us to take a hit too. The right kind of hemp bomb would be a great idea.

The biggest side effect of pot is jail! Why are we locking up hippies when we have bigger fish to fry?

The Pentagon actually spent money to investigate a “sex bomb” that would make troops go crazy on each other, which of course would humiliate Islamic jihadists to death. Why not a mellow bomb?

What’s so funny ’bout peace, love, and understanding?

I’ll puff one to that!

“Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation”. (A Quote) Using pot dulls the discontent part, thereby accepting the status quo. If Henry Ford had used pot, we’d still be walking in streets filled with horse manure……and riding home in the cold rain on the back of a horse.

That’s ridiculous. First, how do you know he didn’t? It was legal then in many places. Second, you are using the assumption that no one would have done something similiar if Ford had not.

Buzz the Kat says;

AND, according to the documentary, “Up in Smoke”, you can even make a car out of pot!

Kreole: Henry Ford had LEGAL ACCESS to cocaine (in the real “original” Coke) as well as candies and other sources, AND LEGAL access to HEROIN!! When the campaign came in to make cocaine and heroin illegal, marihuana was included, even though it is NOT a narcotic! It CAN be psychologically addictive, but is NOT a narcotic. Nicotine is far more addictive, by many reports, than opiates, yet is legal, it WAS tobacco after all that kept the English coming when the Spanish got all the gold, and they only found maize and tobacco to steal from the Native Americans. Wow, between tobacco, corn syrup, and and corn ethanol, maybe they’re getting their revenge??

Hemp of course does have many uses, including medicinal. Tobacco of course was also used very efficiently— and remains one of our most potent and deadly pesticides.(nicotine sulfate)

Pot IS safer for pain, and less addictive than any “pharmaceutical” anti-nausia agents, so of course we DARE not legalize it- speaking of other failed “just say no” type programs. (It turns out DARE resulted in INCREASED use of drugs.)

Pot haters in general know nothing about pot. Nor do they get the cost and/or the damage done by the “war on pot”.

^But think of all those shows we’d miss out on. Spike TV wouldn’t be able to air Gang Land and D.E.A.

FYI Hemp and Marijuana are TWO different substances and one does NOT get you high. just sayin.