Via Murray Wood (Rawlco Radio) … a rambling stream-of-consciousness attempt to liveblog the mind-altered narcissism of Marc Emery, on his threatened extradition to the US to face drug and money laundering charges.
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“it’s not about saving my ass…. (in the US) I’ll even qualify for the death penalty… for anyone who sells 60K plants or 60K seeds, I’ve been selling seeds every day of my life for all my adult life…”
he’s collected “millions and millions” and given it to charitable groups and addiction centers all over the globe… he has no money.. as soon as he gets it he gives it away.
Jack Layton came to his home to implore him to get “his people” to suppoort the NDP.. given thousands and thousands to poltiical parties..
Every member of parliament has had a subscription to his magazine for the last 10 years….
No politicain ever said to him that he was doing something wrong.
No politician ever turned down a dollar of his money.
He’s paid $600K in tax, and Revenue Canada has consulted him, asked him how they could get more marijuana tax money. Apparently a Revenue Canada rep will testify in court on his behalf.
Health canada told him that they’ve told people can get their seeds for med marijuana from him..
[This man NEVER stops for a breath)]
He’s had a profound effect on the landscape on how people across the world view marijuana [no kidding – he sounds like a lunatic]
… on a mission to promote human rights activisim to get marijuana convicts out of jail around the world, a terrible holocaust, a tragedy, and if the US wants to prosecute him for that he’s proud to go.
Though, he’d rather not, so call Irwin Cotler, everyone, he needs a groudswell, his fate is in your hands, Emery has served you all his life…. if he’s going to be a martyr and spend the rest of his life behind bars, it will be great to know that there are people out there who love him.
Trivia in defense of marijuana:
…the food they serve at McDonalds kills tens of thousands of peple every year
…people don’t like pot because it makes people loopy, or critical
… parents don’t like pot because their children smoke it
… teacher don’t like it because students “lose respect for the lessons they learned ” and they should lose respect.
In response to a question about his hypocrisy over funding drug addiction clinics; He never had any one on pot “apply to his clinic” because they were addicted… if they have a problem with the drug, stopping ends it the very next day. (He says he’s treated 65 people?)
A (supportive) caller describes a friend in detail who has usedj since highschool, can’t keep a job, etc. lost his family because he will choose the drug over everything –
Emery: no person who grew up in a stable 2 parent home has ever become addicted to anything – but people who become addicted to drugs shouldn’t go to jail and that “doesnt mean we put people in jail who facilitate their addiction”.
He’s ready to “sacrifice himself” to speed up legislation … there are forgotten people in concrete cells in the American gulag… pot users are just like the Jews, the blacks, the natives, rounded up and put in camps. Like the Chinese persecute the Falun Gong… what’s the difference between smoking pot and finding enlightenment and doing Ti Chi to find enlightenment?
Closing sentence; “If he can bring any light on this war on all human beings has been sponsored by thiis rogue organization called the United States”.
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So, colour me convinced. Today, in the name of legalizing (-)-(6aR,10aR)-6,6,9-trimethyl-3-pentyl-6a,7,8,10a -tetrahydro-6H-benzo[c]chromen-1-ol, I join the millions of Canadians who are dedicated to Marc Emery’s attainment of martyrdom.
Godspeed, Mr. Emery.
Godspeed.
Fascinating, Captain.
If Marc Emery had been the public face of opposition to prohibition of alcohol, we’d still have prohibition today.
The man is the most effective advocate for keeping marijuana illegal, and wins more converts to the anti-marijuana cause every time he opens his mouth.
I have heard Mark speak a few times on the media. He is articulate and appears to be quite intelligent.
But what a waste of a life!
Pot is best left in the blackmarket. It’s better for the economy since the government can’t steal the money and it does get spent by regular folks they way they want to spend it … the quality is better because there is free market competition … Which also sets fair pricing. It provides income to many people who are simply unemployable in any other area of the workaday world.
Spending one’s life campaigning to hand over a fabulous industry to Ottawa … in proof that Mark is missing a spoke or two.
I don’t necessarily advocate smoking pot, but if you are adult and want to … have at it dude!
There was a tipping point for me, in that at no point did he state that it shouldn’t be used by minors, he had no problems with addiction, because addicts didn’t “hurt'” others… ???
He’s a classic case of the type of person who has some mastery of the language, who can express himself well, but when you take apart what they are saying, they make absolutely no sense. The logic is flawed, one premise is abandoned as quickly as the next one is launched – it’s almost as though they use verbosity as a shield. He really has to be heard to be believed – he will continue talking at full speed until someone forcefully interrupts. Another tactic to prevent rational debate – you see politicians adopt that as a tactic, too, when they get on open line shows with the public. Take a question and then talk as long as human possible, saying as little as possible.
It masquerades as intelligence, but its not.
I know of of few of those, now that I think of it.
Yes Kate .. I qualified my point by stating that he “appears” intelligent.
Mastery of language does not equate to being a smart person .. for example, consider the buffoons who have tenure in our universities. They really have it down. I feel for the hapless students who will spend most of their lives programmed. The odd one wakes up after enought life experience … if they don’t get a government job right out of the gate.
I just love this blog.
Cheers
> If Marc Emery had been the public face of opposition to prohibition of alcohol, we’d still have prohibition today.
Does that mean there should be prohibition? Just because one idiot speaks out in favor of something doesn’t mean that it’s a bad idea. Give me a good argument why it makes sense (or, better yet, why it’s a good idea) that alcohol is legal and marijuana is not.
Alcohol is difficult to manufacture at home.
Pot isn’t
brett, give me one good reason why marijuana should be legal and crystal meth is not? or cocaine?
Can you guarantee that it wouldn’t get into the hands of children? No, because that’s happening today. Yes, kids can get their hands on alcohol, but if an adult is caught providing same, there are some pretty stiff penalties.
Alcohol isn’t ever “cut” with anything, i.e. if I go and buy a bottle of scotch, it will have just that, scotch, in the bottle, and nothing else. I know exactly what I am buying. The same cannot be said for pot, it can be laced with any number of things and it won’t be discernable until you’ve already smoked it, and it’s too late to say “that’s not what I wanted.”
As well, since the gov’t has cut back so drastically on police & RCMP funding (whether provincially or federally), I suspect a big chunk of their budgets come from the “ill-gotten gains” (bank accounts, sale of houses and vehicles, etc.). Take that away and who foots the bill? Citizens (because we know the gov’t isn’t going to change their fiscal approach in any great hurry, unless they can make an election promise, kinda like the new helicopters the military are still waiting for).
My,my a stoner gets popped and the world is falling down. What a whack-job and when he’s convicted don’t blame the U.S. Did you know that more pot comes thru Canada than MEHICO, no you did’nt. Granted Canada grows some of the ‘bomb” I should know, and as a reformed smoker E.G. EMPLOYED now, my friends here in the central valley of CAL-LE-FOR-NIA we were getting B.C Bud here. If you up in the GREAT WHITE LOST IN SPACE PEOPLE think that were going to let this scumbag go you are wrong. His arrest follows a plan, after the SCOTUS decision on medical pot was overuled the feds here are now stepping up efforts to bust growers and seed sellers to get the indoor craze under control. AND NO I DO NOT HATE CANADA IT’S JUST THAT YOU ARE LOST A LITTLE BIT, AS WE ARE HERE. And yes booze is far worse. Tweakers, and those who shoot up should be killed as they cannot be cured, and besides they must rob and rape to get the fix, STONERS DON’T STEAL, well not as much as the aforementioned. just a thought……..
Good lord! Legalizing drugs doesn’t require anyone to use them or to like or be charmed by Marc Emery.
Kate, are you suggesting that Mr Emery should be shipped south due to his incoherence or long windedness? Not his taxpaying, charity or entrepreneurship I trust? Or is it because you think that the state should start fully enforcing existing marijuana laws and he is a high profile place to start?
Are the libertarians on here sitting this one out? Or is this a standard conservative blog? ie use the state to enforce my social norms? Just curious.
Cheers
How was he able to make million$? The seeds are illegal in the States.
I really don’t think Americans are going to jail for smoking pot by the millions. Just the one MAKING millions marketing it.
Emery is white colla’ Gansta-stylin’.
Word.
p.s: I like the line about all the M.P reading his mag. Perhaps in loony-left-liebral land.
Can’t recall ever meeting-or heard of- anybody ‘addicted’ to weed! (And that old REEFER MADNESS flic, would certainly appeal to the kind of people who play Rolling Stones records backwards for ‘satanic messages’! Duh!
While travelling across the United States, back in the early ’70s, I read a newspaper article about the boyfriend of a judge’s secretary, who got bagged for selling two joints to a drug cop, and was sentenced to TWENTY YEARS IN JAIL! (The judge said “We are going to make an example out of him.”) One has to seriously wonder about a society that would do this to it’s own people…………
Emery is looking to become a martyr.
He broke the laws of another country. He knew he was breaking their laws. If the U.S. wants to prosecute him for breaking their laws, they have every right to do so. He was not forced to break their laws. He did it knowing that he was running a risk and has no one to blame but himself. He is an adult and must accept responsibility – something that far too amny of our left-leaning friends seem not to be able to grasp.
Candace, you asked, *Can you guarantee that it would not get into the hands of children?*
Yours is the most important question. I think that is why pot should be sold in packs of 20 at the 7-11.
Pot is totally available to kids now, so selling it retail will cut off free samples. Prices will drop. Thus no incentive to hook kids by dealers.
The gravy profits are gone. The selling to kids fines and penalties are stiffened.
No need for grow-ops.
No need for shot guns.
No need for anti-RCMP pit bulls.
No need for home grow criminal records.
Giant taxflows to pay for common-sense drug info for the kids.
Vancouver Island, where I live is a virtual pot garden, yet I have no interest in it, other than to take the criminal profits out of it.
Pot sales through retail outlets will make it less available to children.
Most important though is that the mystique will have been removed. The main attraction of smoking a joint is the outlaw connotation.
Take the *rebel* fun out of it. Sell it in corner stores.
Concentrate the drug crush where it belongs on killers like Herione, Meth and other cooked killer drugs.
Don’t you dare try that Librano label stuff now. This is a debate, not an emotional mud-slinging duel. [for the one hot-head in the group]. 73s TG
The hippocracy around Marc Emery is stunning.
If anyone should go to jail it is the of the liberal Party of Canadar and their wise-guy foot soldiers for misappropriating taxpayer dollars, for organized crime activity, fraud, theft and all the other allegations that have come to light since the auditor general Sheila F. exposed these “oddities” and the Gommery Inquiry is studying.
Anyone think PMPM will actually do what he said by calling an election within thirty days of the release of the Gomery findings?
Pot seed selling indeed .. what a travesty.
Oh yeah, Emery. When joints are sold in packs of 20 everywhere there will be no need to go to Emery’s store.
He only makes money while pot is *special*.
This will ruin him and others in his game. 73s TG
I agree with all the conservatives here! People should not be profiting from selling a product that others desire.
Some products are harmful, and without the gub’ment to look after us, we might misuse one.
Ahh, the anti-capitalistic mentality is alive and well.
Marc Emery, Criminal or Freedom Fighter? (or terrorist?)
http://www.clintondesveaux.com
I don’t have a lot of personal experience with drugs. But pot does seem to me like a pretty benign drug. I have known people who like pot that live productive and professional lives, and who are responsible, loving parents. I am sure pot is worse than coffee and smoking, but it’s not like pot is meth. From what I understand, that crap makes people not give a shit about the safety of their own children. Not all drugs are equal.
OK, here we go – prepare for a long-winded approach.
“Pot is not addictive” – probably not, if it’s pot alone. However, while it may not be “truly” addictive, it’s affects can be.
I speak from personal experience. My brother was our neighborhood pot dealer. Don’t get me wrong, we lived in a blue-collar, law-abiding Canadian ‘burb that parents thought was a great place, far enough away from the big city (10 miles in the 60s and 70s was a bit of a distance, without great transit). We actually, for a number of years, had the RCMP record for highest number of officers per capita BECAUSE we were the conduit to the “big city” so the joke was on the parents.
My brother decided I should be introduced to pot in Grade 7. I spent Grade 7 & 8 high. On the way to school, my friends and I would smoke a joint. Another at lunchtime. Another on the way home from school. Another when we “went out” after supper, and again before we went home to meet our curfew at 9:00 pm. So I spent what, maybe 8 hours straight a day?
Was I hooked? No. Did I like it? You bet.
Of the “Four Musketeers” that I hung with, by Grade 10 – 1 was addicted to speed, and a complete write-off. 1 was using 12-14 hits of windowpane acid to get high, at least (if not more often) daily (note that windowpane was called that because it could be split in quarters, it was that powerful, although I’m sure it’s been surpassed today. For those wise enough to never have tried it, I took it twice, 1/4 hit each, and was high for at least 8 hours, with another 2-3 hours of intense paranoia and discomfort coming “down” – not a pretty drug. 12 hits to someone who had never taken the drug would likely be lethal, but I’m not a scientist so can’t say for sure).
1 was pregnant.
I moved away, like 2000 miles away, so left the culture (and my brother) behind (thank God). And consider myself incredibly lucky.
My brother? If you give a damn, check my blog for this post:
http://wakinguponplanetx.blogspot.com/2005/08/what-de-institutionalizing-means-to.html
If you can’t be bothered to read the whole thing, skip roughly to the last third and start reading.
He started with pot in Grade 9 or 10 and became a dealer shortly thereafter. Unbeknownst to us or him, he was also developing a psychosis, “paranoid schizophrenia.” Anyone who has smoked a joint can probably recognize that pot plus that diagnosis isn’t a pretty picture. Regardless, as a dealer he started acquiring “harder” drugs for his friends (he introduced my older sister to cocaine a year or two after introducing me to pot). A few years later, he bought some … not sure if it was heroine or what… and sold it to his roommate.
And found his roommate dead the next day. Which put “PAID” on his psychosis.
He and my family (and, to be honest, the general public, and taxpayers) have paid for it since.
“Pot isn’t a problem”?
F*ck you.
I’m very sorry for what happened to your brother and your family; it’s a harsh world we live in.
We can’t change that by outlawing pot. Gambling, tobacco, and alcohol can also ruin lives, but for the vast majority of people, they do not.
The personal pain you have suffered does not make pot a problem for most people; but we all sympathize with what you went through.
Tony Guitar,
If pot were sold in packs of 20 by government sanctioned outlets, will they there also be government sanctioned exports to the huge US market as well?
Or will the the grow ops continue to supply it?
If not, then who?
I doubt the US govenment would sanction our sanctioned government exporters of pot to their country.
There will always be a black market for drugs … just as there are still booleggers selling alchol to kids and anyone else who wants it.
You can’t stop someone from supplying a demand … There is a law of supply of demand and it’s not a law that can be either passed or resinded by any parlament or congress. That is reality. That is the nature of humans.
Interesting how a discussion of drugs can lead to reality eh?
I wonder if Mr.Emery likens himself to the Columbians in the drug trade as I do?If he didnt make millions from the trade I might believe him but anyone who sells drugs illeagally just may force himself to lie occasionally about what he does with the ill gotten gains.
FreeMarc, while I appreciate your comments about my family, I think you’ve missed the point. Pot – in and of itself – may not hurt many people, but the reality is, it often is either combined (with coke or crack or angel dust or some other component) and no one really knows what they’ve got until it’s too late.
Gov’t regulations may or may not solve that.
But, I ask you…
Has ending prohibition put paid to cyrrosis of th liver (spelling may suck, it’s late)
Has understanding the issues of tobacco ended, or limited, the number of deaths caused by lung, throat or mouth cancer (she asks as she smokes)?
No.
And so I argue that legalizing pot will not solve anything. Paranoid schizophrenics will still smoke it, because they’ll be introduced to it long before they’ve been diagnosed (men age 16, women 18-20), and it will just exascerbate the problem.
Why would you add another drug to our over-prescribed culture?
Quite intresting article posting.I enjoyed reading this.
Tat
Candace, I’m sure you don’t think I suggested Pot was not a problem.
To be perfectly clear, pot is a very serious problem and wise policy must be used to defang it as much as possible.
Hard drink has always been a problem. Did selling it under government policy and regulation make it less so. I think it did.
Who needs both the social problems of spirits AND gangs like the Al capone’s. One of these is enough.
Duke, interesting question. The USA would deal with the *product* just as any other.
They could ban it. They could allow the trade and collect tremendous excise and other various fees and taxes.
Knowing free-enterprise America, they would have Fedrerally licensed private contract farmers producing a medium strength product for local and export use in no time.
The argument still stands. Almost all kids can easily get pot now. Wise regulated policies can only help to make the product less *special*, less potent, less attractive and less available as in * no freebe samples or enticements by dealers.
Still open for an alternate winning proposal to make pot less attractive to kids. 73s TG
fyi: 3 in our neighborhood succumbed, not just my brother. All of them in the 60s/70s when no one had a clue about the long-term effects.
The only “good” that has come from our experience with my brother is we have our own, in-house “boogey-man.”
My brother was my best friend, for all of my growing years. He died 20-30 years ago, and some sick f*ck, that threatened me & mine, took over. I will likely cry at his funeral, but not near as much as I’ve cried over the years.
When I run into his friends, not often, but it happens, and they ask if they should go see him, I counsel them to remember him as they already do, and not mess with it.
He can barely keep awake (due to the psychotic-“fixing” drugs) and certainly doesn’t make much sense. The man who would have made a brilliant lawyer (IQ well over 150-160) makes pen holders out of coffee cans (yes, like kindergarten students).
He’s on AISH and survives. And that’s really all that can be said.
Other than the reality that… 3 weeks without his meds? I have absolutely no interest in even guessing what it would look like, but make a point of him not knowing my home address for that same reason.
When was the last time YOU were scared of your brother?
Oh yes Candace, a pack of corner store joints, [ which most kids could not afford], would not have any xtal meth, heroine or cocaine mixed in. There is an added safety factor in government licensed producers products. 73s TG
When was the last time you heard of someone going blind from a bottle of hooch from a beer & wine or government outlet?
You know that would be a common disaster today if booze was still an outlawed product. 73s TG
To paraphrase Andy Warhol:
“Marc Emery – your 15 minutes are up.”
Compare/contrast Emery’s pathology with this interview from the world of reality: life or death.>>>>>>”Gabriel: We borrowed life one day at a time.”>>> Emery escapes from life to death; Gabriel escapes from death to life. >>>
August 11, 2005
Interview with Brigitte Gabriel
“FP: What is life like under the threat of Islamic terror?
Gabriel: We borrowed life one day at a time. After sleeping in cardboard boxes for a month that had been stored in the bomb shelter, thinking this will be over soon, we realized this situation is getting worse and worse. We finally furnished the bomb shelter with two old mattresses from our garage. My mom and I slept on one and my dad on the other. To get food my mother and I would go out and find different types of grass and dandelions to eat around the shelter in between the bombing. My mother would soak chickpeas, rice, lentils and beans over night so we can eat something during the day. My father couldn�t get out because in the bombing of our house, he lost his hearing and he wouldn�t hear the sniper�s bullets nor the bombs coming so he can hide. He had to stay put while my mother and I got out. To get water we would crawl in a ditch under snipers bullets to a near by spring. Every time we�d leave we would say our last good-byes because we didn�t know if we would come back alive. My mother would use her stocking on top of the bottle to filter all the worms and the debris so we can drink it. Then we would crawl back with bullets flying over our heads. Sometimes it would take us hours just to crawl 100 feet back into the bomb shelter.
One day when I was 13 one of our soldiers warned us that we are no longer able to fight and we are going to be attacked viciously that night. He wished us a merciful death as he left. Knowing we were going to be slaughtered that night I put on my Easter dress because I wanted to look pretty when I was dead, knowing that there would be nobody to prepare me for burial. I stood in my dress in front of the mirror crying as my mother combed my long hair and tied a white ribbon in it. I told her: �please I don’t want to die I�m only 13.�>>>> newsbeat1.com
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=19016
Uhm, perhaps a bit of introspection is in order.
This guy when he used to live in London Ontario, owned a book reselling business. It was a hangout for the loopy left and eventually after two runs for civil office, the guy made an over the top announcement that he was fed up and was moving west because he felt stiffled.
Marc compares not to Ghandi, as he would like you to believe, but to one Paul Martin for his over the top rhetoric.
Marijana is still a drug, drug trafficing, even if its just selling seeds, is trafficing. Drug trafficing is one of the more luractive products organized crime and terrorist orgs get their funding from. So whether this later day gadfly prophet is “only selling seeds”, he’s helping to propogate the seeds of crime….
The same type of crime that got four RCMP officers in Mayerthorpe Alberta killed.
“(S)He’s a classic case of the type of person who has some mastery of the language, who can express h[er]self well, but when you take apart what they are saying, they make absolutely no sense. The logic is flawed, one premise is abandoned as quickly as the next one is launched – it’s almost as though they use verbosity as a shield. He really has to be heard to be believed – he will continue talking at full speed until someone forcefully interrupts. …
It masquerades as intelligence, but its not.
I know of of few of those, now that I think of it.”
Pot, meet Kettle. Kettle, Pot.
Tony … you’d better consider tuning your Guitar, The USA would rather eat their children than allow Canada to export pot to them through their own government channels.
Where have you been … heard of the war of drugs yet? .. the DEA … the Christain Right … The Republican Party? American Prisons?
Jeez!
Ottawa to get tougher on crystal meth
CTV – 53 minutes ago
Ottawa is about to announce stiffer penalties for the production and use of the drug methamphetamine, putting it on an equal playing field as cocaine and heroin. Known in one form as crystal meth, and in another …
Crystal meth penalties stiffened Globe and Mail
Crystal meth pushers will face life sentences Alaska Highway News
Candace, the issue is not whether we will add pot and other drugs to our culture; they are already their and widely available to everyone. Since people have control of their own bodies, what they put in them is their business.
The issue is whether we are going to turn people into criminals for actions that physically harm only themselves.
Freemarc,did you ever hear of seat belt and motorcycle helmet laws?If you havent you will.
It is time to criminalize alcohol.
Too many lives have been ruined from drunk drivers. Countless marriages have been wrecked. Families harmed. Students in university have suffered, and many have had to stop their studies. I know cases of teenagers passing out at parties. Even young children are finding their parent’s stash, and starting out a life of alcoholism.
Anyone producing, or selling it should be put in jail. Anyone who promotes it is an asshole.
We need a new War on Alcohol!
Morality soldiers of Canada, Unite!!
The point here is that Emery broke U.S. laws. Whether Canada changes its laws regarding marijuana is really irrelevant. U.S. courts don’t give a hill o’beans what Canada’s laws say here. The U.S. authorities intend to prosecute Emery and he’d better get used to it. He had a choice. He didn’t need to sell seeds to U.S. residents.
But he was a Canadian, in Canada.
Tell me something… Would it have been acceptable for a Canadian to smuggle Bibles into the USSR? or even today, into China? Would you suggest extridition?
Duke, Jeez, indeed. Have you not gathered that the U.S. war on drugs is a greater failure than our Gun Registry bomb?
They can not remain rigid on a sinking ship forever. You as an individual can be flexable. I know from your comments you can be pretty sharp.
It’s time you thought up some winning angles of your own. Failing U.S. policy on pot is not a good wall to hide behind.
Part of my 11:52 comment above from yesterday….
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Concentrate the drug crush where it belongs on killers like Herione, Meth and other cooked killer drugs.
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Now, today, I see in the National Post Headlines via Email; Ottawa cracks down on Meth sellers… Lifetime sentences.[not exact]
Maz2 lists others similar at 12:09 above.
ESP eh? 73s TG
Candace
I partly sympathize with you that you have had at least a partially wasted life. But really now, how was pot the problem? You could substitute “pot” with “alcohol”. Except, whats worse, alcohol IS adictive. There will always be cases like yours. There will always be people who can’t handle alcohol, and there will always be people who can’t handle any diet but a completely natural, whole-grain type diet or the slightest “cheating” and they’re back to obesity. Now, should I, who am not an alcholic, I who am not addicted to mary-jane, I who am not fat, have to be restricted for the sake of those who can’t handle these things? You know what? Even at 12, a kid should be responsible enough to say no. Sorry, but where were your parents? There are so many factors in your story that we don’t know about. You can do this anecdotal thing with just about anything… Find a person who’s life has been ruined, and point the blame somewhere else… then fu*ck it up for the rest of us. I was surprised to read the other day that almost 50% of North American’s have made it their choice to NEVER consume alcohol. I say, excellent! I am glad that they are exercising their freedom this way. But listen, don’t prevent me from doing whatever the hell I want with my own body. Thank you.
Duc — It is not difficult to make alcohol at home. It is actually rather simple. You can easily and inexpensively make apple wine with a can of frozen apple juice, some lemonade, and a pack of yeast… not hard at all. There are plenty of directions for homemade stills on the internet, so it’s pretty easy to make it strong if you want as well. What gave you the idea it was difficult?
Andrew I like your comments, you should email me at gokaysar@gmail.com
“Freemarc,did you ever hear of seat belt and motorcycle helmet laws?If you havent you will.”
Oh I get it, Lloyd Axeworthy is leftist scum for trying to get cars off the road; but if we make a million little laws that let our government oppress us and achieve their goals another way, that’s perfectly fine with you.
Maybe if Axeworthy’s plan doesn’t work out we can strip the licenses forever of everyone who breaks one of the myriads of useless road regulations. That would help us meet our Kyoto targets, eh?
Anyone that boring should serve time just for boring the rest of us to death. The actor Jeremy Irons, who’s a heavy smoker, was called on it by some kiss-ass reporter one day. He said he found that boring people to death was a far greater crime than smoking a fag while drinking coffee or having a glass of wine or beer. My kinda guy. You can imagine how tough it is to live here in Vancouver with an Emery on every street corner. Nobody talks about how a lot of these folks don’t work, collect welfare because they’re too stoned to function in a real job. Some are welfare lifers and are deemed ‘unemployable’ and therefore, cannot be made to look for work. Wonder what that costs society, generally?
It is true that drugs in general are very bad for people, families and societies. I feel the same way about drugs as elective cosmetic surgery. Rarely a good idea.
I don’t want pot legalized. I suspect it makes people more stupid than they otherwise would have been over time — at best. Canada’s policy of providing needles and places to shoot heroine is just insane. State supported drug addiction. Man, that’s just crazy. I bout fell out of my chair when I discovered that little tid bit. Bunch of enablers.
Rereading my post, I might have just used this basic summary of Mark Emery’ doing a telephone interview on radio:
“Marijuana is a harmless drug that saves lives and is harmless and if you do have problems with marijuana you can just quit and the effects go away the very next day and people who get addicted to drugs only hurt themselves and shouldn’t be put in jail for just hurting themselves and neither should the people who support their addiction by selling them drugs and I hate America.”
Repeat until line goes dead.
Pot is not the biggest problem, it’s meth, coke and alchohol. They are stepping stones from pot. My husband is prime example, he took the step and was almost ruined. Legalizing is not an option PERIOD