Plus ca change
I’m watching a program on TV called “Inside America’s Pot Industry” and I’m reading a book about Clinton’s first term called “Mastering the Presidency” and I’m struck by one thing in both cases.
Nothing has really changed for a long time. Republicans have fought health care before, they have always been against health care and against rich people having to pay any taxes. And the MSM has not tired of portraying Marijuana as some kind of evil weed.
“A jerry rigged irrigation system COMPLETE with plastic piping,” like that is something it took an evil genius to figure out.
They interviewed a family in northern California who were FORCED to move out because all of their neighbors were growing pot. Not that they were threatened, or coerced, they just were really, really offended.
And the interviewer, a very attractive lady I must admit, saying to the guy who’d written books on how to grow pot, “You talk about this as if it’s normal, well I have to tell you, for me and a lot of my viewers, it is not normal at all” and I had to wonder, where did this woman grow up, what kind of a high school did she go to that she doesn’t see marijuana as normal?
For a long time now, it has struck me that the war on drugs, which really means a war on marijuana because if you’re caught doing heroin you get sent to a rehab program but if your caught smoking pot you go to jail, is rather like the attempted repression of Bokononism in Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle. Everybody does it, but it’s totally illegal.
The discerning reader may have ascertained from this that I am a fan of marijuana. This is true. I smoke it regularly, with enthusiasm and in large amounts. I feel that it has tremendous health benefits (reduces stress), social benefits (I never know how to start a conversation, but it’s easy to invite someone to smoke a joint) but mostly I just enjoy being high. And that hasn’t changed for the last 35 years.
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