keep the government's hands off my pipe!!!

yeah, i just kind of let the whole medical marijuana thing pass. i was aware of it when it happened, but i just didn't feel the motivation to write on it ...

... and why should i? yeah, i smoke weed. so what. that doesn't mean for a second that i support medical marijuana. in fact, i get tired of all these fucking pussies talking about how "sick and dying people are being denied their medicine." it's not medicine, it's weed. and it's fun to smoke, but it ain't going to cure your cancer, and it ain't going to cure your aids, so give it up already.

and really, that's where i was coming from when i first heard the decision handed down by the u.s. supreme court last week that denied states' rights for the first time in my (pot-shortened) memory. it seemed to me, at least when ever i would pay attention, that the supreme court appeared to stand adamantly in the corner of states' rights. that, as far as i know, has been a cornerstone of the conservative soap box for decades ... since before goldwater.

of course, i don't really know anything about history or politics, so please don't take my word as truth.

from what i understand, the claim made in the majority decision of the court on the matter was that the prohibition and regulation of controlled substances falls under the jurisdiction of interstate commerce. and that's a pretty solid argument ... being that one of the fundamental demands for a union such as ours is the need for continuity in interstate commerce.

still, i am not buying it. i find little in the constitution to protect a lot of our government's practical applications. and most of my complaints about said applications would center around interstate commerce and the so called "eclectic clause" of the first article of the constitution. and i blame this largely on the often stubborn approach to government of alexander hamilton. but really, i am quite far away from any point that i had when i began this entry.

i just don't like medical marijuana. i think that last week's ruling was most likely bullshit, not because of the constitutional basis of interstate commerce, but because of the fascist notion of controlling what "free" adults do with and to their bodies.

i don't even think there should be an argument about medical marijuana. i have long held the opinion that all substances should be legal and readily available to the public (meaning no government regulation). obviously, if it can't be got, then there is no discussion.

but i think that doctors should only make "recommendations" and not "prescriptions." if some moron wants to go to the pharmacist and buy a bunch of vicadin and kill himself ... then more pot for me.

and pot, of course, should be totally legal for recreational use. and if aids patients and cancer patients want to get high because they think it helps them in their illness, then more power to them. but i hate to see people expend energy to save marijuana as a medicine, when they should be using that energy to let ME get high. there is nothing that marijuana can do for you that there isn't a better, stronger pharmaceutical for.

on a side note, i will someday learn to spell ... well ... probably not. and you know what? fuck this entry. i am so full of shit anyway. i would rather just get high. of course, the funny thing is that there is nothing the government can do to stop me from smoking weed, but they sure seem to be doing a number on these sick people. sucks for them, i guess.

i should point out, in the name of full disclosure, that i have always voted against all medical marijuana propositions. and i feel that if people win on the medical front, they will forget that there is nothing wrong with getting high. what really needs to happen is those powerful tobacco lobbies need to realize that if they were allowed to grow weed, they could save their industry.