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THE QUOTE
“Let me be clear about this: I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.” — Keith Richards
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POT O’TROUBLE
President Barack Obama has spent the weekend in Colombia and already nearly a dozen members of his party have been busted.
Hah!
Anyway, at the Summit of the Americas Obama is rolling over with his legs in the air, hoping the right wing will scratch his belly. He’s standing firm against the legalization of drugs even as other national leaders in the Western Hemisphere call for an end to the war on drugs and their legalization.
Personal message to the President: Barry, baby, the right ain’t gonna scratch your belly even if you claim you made love to your wife once with a hunting rifle in the bed, you want to outlaw Mexico, you’re turning the keys to the White House over to Pat Robertson, or you’re getting your daughters fitted for chastity belts.
Forget playing to them, Mr. President; play to us, the folks who fantasized that you equal change.
That’s all for me today. I’ll step aside for that sizzling library chick RE Paris, who’s done some fab research on marijuana, the laws governing it, and our weird, weird relationship with it. (BTW: guess what date Friday is.) Take it away RE.
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re: ARTS & LETTERS — AMERICA’S FAVORITE ILLEGAL SUBSTANCE
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| “Il est dangereux d’avoir raison dans des choses où des hommes accrédités ont tort.” (It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.) ~ Voltaire (1752) |
Member from upstate New York: “Mr. Speaker, what is this bill about?”
Speaker Rayburn: “I don’t know. It has something to do with a thing called marihuana. I think it’s a narcotic of some kind.” (Marihuana Tax Act Hearing, 1937)
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GIMME SHELTER
So what vid did you think I was gonna post?
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Big Mike, why do you keep using words like sizzling? My brain was fried long ago without any extracurricular assistance.