Megajuana

Over the years, my appreciation of journalist Dan Rather has gone up and down.  I definitely think he was set up by the Bushies in the fake  document scandal, and his original allegation (that  George W Bush was AWOL from his unit in the Texas  Air National Guard during the Viet Nam war) was true, but there was never any point prior to that  when I thought he was a great and fearless crusader for the truth.

Now, he seems to be making a bit of a comeback.  We’ll see where it goes.

The Future

I’m not sure about this piece, which I just perused over at the old Huffington Puffington.  Could be Dan is just offering his objective view, reporting  what he saw.  The comments seem to be about  evenly divided between those who saw it as a pro marijuana piece, saying it should be legalized so we can  get on with the reasonable regulations, and those who saw it as the next desperate argument from those who want to keep marijuana banned, because they are convinced it’s evil, and they are convinced it’s evil because it’s illegal and therefore only a bunch of hippie scofflaws smoke it.

Rather said they are growing  marijuana plants so  tall  in  California they look like  giant Christmas  trees, they are like little redwoods, they are up to 15 feet (almost 5 meters) tall.  He said they are growing  on  public land  and crowding out the local  fauna.  They are being  so  heavily irrigated that creeks  are drying up and the salmon are endangered.

I must say, I also saw this article  as the latest desperate anti-marijuana argument, because no where  in the  article  did  it  actually state the plain, obvious fact that once marijuana is just  flat out  legalized  across the board,  those problems would disappear.  There would be no need to grow it on  public land, you could just  grow  it on  your  own land, where it’s  not competing with any other plants.  There would be no need to  surreptitiously pipe water out of mountain streams,  you could get it perfectly legally and pay your water and utilities bills like  everybody else.

Over the last few  decades, the strength of marijuana  has  increased tremendously due to effective breeding.  Now, apparently, it is growing on giant plants as well.  I  foresee a future where humans walk, like tiny little elves, through giant forests of happy trees.  It is rather a pleasant vision.