tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184575347466163757.post2726765298502563543..comments2023-07-03T08:51:01.209-05:00Comments on What Powderfinger Said . . . Observations on Life in the Dying Empire: I Smell a Smoky RatAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00111660094586126379noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184575347466163757.post-54988649631021153512011-05-24T15:05:58.365-05:002011-05-24T15:05:58.365-05:00I used to entertain the same kind of thoughts, and...I used to entertain the same kind of thoughts, and I still think Big Tobacco and the Spirits industry probably do have pot-related patents. But here we have a situation where our overweening moral impulse and desire to foist it upon the entire world overcomes even our equally rampant desire for money. This is one of those rare examples of this happening in our history. Money is hands down winner almost every time.<br /><br />Off on another short trip this weekend, and then the weekend after that. And there are two more trips planned later this year. I don't mind trips, but as a basic homebody, this is getting a little extreme.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00111660094586126379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184575347466163757.post-9541760968975612822011-05-23T23:32:13.515-05:002011-05-23T23:32:13.515-05:00what i don't understand is how this works vis ...what i don't understand is how this works vis a vis big business. i thought when i was young that the cigarette industry would get hold of patents and then try to legalize it, once only they could sell it. and of course the liquor industry could do the same. i could--and still can--visualize commercials----attractive young housewife getting upset when the joints she tried to roll fall apart, and the male voiceover says, 'tired of always having to roll your own joints' and elaborate on new pre-rolled joints in a smaller version of a cigarette package. then they could genderize--big cigar like joints, man-sized, hot guy smoking while young women ogle him. or a woman complaining about all these big cigar-like joints, and then the voiceover talks about how you enjoy things better when you feel feminine, and the small joints would be pink and come in a rhinestone packet----i mean, they really could do that, and then they'd make the $$ not the drug dealers. still seems odd to me that never happened......karen lindseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09905540909994791438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184575347466163757.post-59962354565759308132011-05-23T18:31:00.194-05:002011-05-23T18:31:00.194-05:00Karen, sometimes I'm able to deal with this so...Karen, sometimes I'm able to deal with this sort of habitual stupidity--I mean the extraordinary amount of resources we waste on politically popular but practically useless programs such as the so-called war on drugs (do they call it that anymore?)--but most of the time I just read this sort of thing as more evidence that we are a doomed people. It's more than conservative prejudices at work here. Whenever we talk about something nationwide, we have to factor in national ignorance and/or stupidity. That's certainly at work with our drug polices.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00111660094586126379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184575347466163757.post-70266033868307742742011-05-23T17:51:10.541-05:002011-05-23T17:51:10.541-05:00p.s. don't know why they called me 'ananym...p.s. don't know why they called me 'ananymous' just now. i don't think i can get arrested for smoking pot 40 years ago, or taking legal rx asthma meds today. somehow 'anonymous' looks ominous.....karen lindseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09905540909994791438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184575347466163757.post-11247392777819913472011-05-23T17:48:27.544-05:002011-05-23T17:48:27.544-05:00as someone who is on several totally legal drugs f...as someone who is on several totally legal drugs for totally legal reasons, and who once-upon-a-time was a '60s hippy-chick, i find the fuss over medical marijuana totally obnoxious. it's such a mild drug, compared to most legal drugs! personally, though my own pot days are long past and i spend 3 months a year in a country where i could easily and uncontroversially use it with no interest in doing so, i think laws against even its recreational use are inane. but okay, they won't let us use it for fun: much better to stick to martinis.....but when it really helps sick people and they can't have access to it, it goes beyond catering to conservative prejudices and becomes yet one more form of oppression. <br /><br />glad you had a good trip, by the way!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com