Mistake??
May 14th, 2006 -
It is acknowledged by “religious conservatives” that God is the Creator, the Author of All Things, seen and unseen… including marijuana and all other psychoactive substances, prohibited and unprohibited.
To prohibit any of those substances is to assert that God simply must have made a “Mistake” in putting them here, that we the “Unwashed” are incapable of using them responsibly for recreational or any other purposes. Of course the “”Anointed Conservatives”, who cannot deny that this is their assertion, are the same ones who nver tire of vacuously mouthing the phrase “personal responsibility”.
Did God in fact make a “Mistake” in Creating marijuana?
Prohibitionists will hasten to say, with no supporting evidence by the way, that marijuana is sooo much stronger today than it was in the past. No only cannot their assertion be proven, but it only tap-dances around the question: God is Omniscient, so He must have Known that humans would attempt to improve it; whether we have succeeded is a question that could only be addressed by going back in time to retrieve, or at least to test, marijuana from years gone by. Even with modern technology, it is impossible perfectly to prevent degradation of potency, so when they rummage through their “evidence rooms” to find some pot from, say, the 1960’s, what they find and test today is not what was smoked or eaten then. But even granting the tenuous thesis that today’s pot is stronger, the questions remain: Didn’t God Know we’d make it stronger if we were able? Does its putative greater potency constitute any excuse to abridge our liberty?
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A famous talk-show host, I won’t dignify him by telling his name, asserted that “Marijuana induces violent criminal activity”. That’s a direct quote. He didn’t even use the usual “may, might, could possibly”, or any other equivocation. I haven’t looked at the latest DEA lie about how many Americans use marijuana, I’m sure they have “updated” from the lowball figure I saw on their weBSite, that 12 million Americans use pot, but let’s just generously grant that number for the sake of argument. Why, Mr. Big Talk-Show Host, are there not 12 million violent criminals running around knocking over 7-11’s, mugging little old ladies, corrupting the minds of “the children”, and generally creating mayhem?
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Another talk-show host, a lesser light than the one cited above, once said of me, “He’s just a druggie and all he wants is to get stoned”. Again, that’s a direct quote. He said it long after I was no longer able to defend myself, because I had asked him a question he couldn’t answer so he “won” the argument with his trusty dump-button, but the amazing thing to note here is that that simpleton didn’t ask himself this question: If “to get stoned” were in fact all I wanted, why on Earth would I call a talk-radio station, to which it’s common knowledge that literally thousands of law-enforcement officers regularly listen? If it were true that “all I want is to get stoned”, I’d shut up just as all the cowardly, sneaky pot-smokers do, and skulk over to Grundy County to buy some pot.
I don’t skulk.