Cannabis is having a states rights field day in America with the result of chaos in prosecution because the legality varies substantially now. Likely it will be legal across the country before too much longer but it's such a hell of a mess along the way. The topic is a favorite play for politicians and they keep all the noise alive while we of the not yet melted minds only want them to pipe down on the matter.
After many years of gourmet, aficionado, connoisseur, epicurean delight in the magical herb, there's puzzlement about various aspects but I don't have a wild rage. When the chaos has continued for so many years, it only makes my toes itch to hear of it now.
The part which got my attention most recently was notice of the extremely unusual priorities relative to various crimes and busting stoners has a high priority even relative to violent crime.
(Denver Post file)
In 2016 more people were arrested for marijuana possession than for all crimes the FBI classifies as violent, according to 2016 crime data released by the agency on Monday.
Marijuana possession arrests edged up slightly in 2016, a year in which voters in four states approved recreational marijuana initiatives and voters in three others approved medical marijuana measures.
The Cannabist: Over 5% of all arrests in U.S. are for weed
Even if accounting for a presumption of wild errors in the data, those comments are surreal when considered relative to crimes of violence at any ratio and particularly when there's such an imbalance as reported now. I've enjoyed the heathen ganja for many years but I've never heard of stoners shooting anyone. Maybe people could find some examples but even that will only confirm the infrequency. When there's a possibility of violence, stoners will hide behind a curtain, jump out a window, or run like hell for the door.
Zen Yogi: the stoner who abhors violence and runs away will live to be stonin' on another day
We could make a million selling t-shirts, Yogi.
Zen Yogi: do you fancy a rant on this matter, Silas?
No need, mate, since this just comes out of a whole pile of unusual and we can easily find amazing volumes of that.
Zen Yogi: so it's more like a WTF situation then?
It is, Yogi, since we all this lunatic behavior and what other reaction is there other than WTF?
Zen Yogi: do we need to explore the basis for it?
Nah, since the absurdity has been hammered for so long and so many times. People are fed-up with hearing about it ... but then they roll up with this latest craziness and ...
Zen Yogi: WTF?
That's it, Yogi.
Zen Yogi: maybe there's some logic to it somewhere?
Well, let's try this logic when we stand up a stoner next to a rapist and ask which one you want in jail.
Zen Yogi: it makes no sense to even ask
I know, my furry buddy, and that's when the wise stoner smokes a spiff to then wander off through the park looking for dandelions to huff and puff and blow their seeds all the place.
Zen Yogi: I'm with you. Let's go.
All this could even be possible on the Moon.
After many years of gourmet, aficionado, connoisseur, epicurean delight in the magical herb, there's puzzlement about various aspects but I don't have a wild rage. When the chaos has continued for so many years, it only makes my toes itch to hear of it now.
The part which got my attention most recently was notice of the extremely unusual priorities relative to various crimes and busting stoners has a high priority even relative to violent crime.
(Denver Post file)
In 2016 more people were arrested for marijuana possession than for all crimes the FBI classifies as violent, according to 2016 crime data released by the agency on Monday.
Marijuana possession arrests edged up slightly in 2016, a year in which voters in four states approved recreational marijuana initiatives and voters in three others approved medical marijuana measures.
The Cannabist: Over 5% of all arrests in U.S. are for weed
Even if accounting for a presumption of wild errors in the data, those comments are surreal when considered relative to crimes of violence at any ratio and particularly when there's such an imbalance as reported now. I've enjoyed the heathen ganja for many years but I've never heard of stoners shooting anyone. Maybe people could find some examples but even that will only confirm the infrequency. When there's a possibility of violence, stoners will hide behind a curtain, jump out a window, or run like hell for the door.
Zen Yogi: the stoner who abhors violence and runs away will live to be stonin' on another day
We could make a million selling t-shirts, Yogi.
Zen Yogi: do you fancy a rant on this matter, Silas?
No need, mate, since this just comes out of a whole pile of unusual and we can easily find amazing volumes of that.
Zen Yogi: so it's more like a WTF situation then?
It is, Yogi, since we all this lunatic behavior and what other reaction is there other than WTF?
Zen Yogi: do we need to explore the basis for it?
Nah, since the absurdity has been hammered for so long and so many times. People are fed-up with hearing about it ... but then they roll up with this latest craziness and ...
Zen Yogi: WTF?
That's it, Yogi.
Zen Yogi: maybe there's some logic to it somewhere?
Well, let's try this logic when we stand up a stoner next to a rapist and ask which one you want in jail.
Zen Yogi: it makes no sense to even ask
I know, my furry buddy, and that's when the wise stoner smokes a spiff to then wander off through the park looking for dandelions to huff and puff and blow their seeds all the place.
Zen Yogi: I'm with you. Let's go.
All this could even be possible on the Moon.
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