tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375681131276548542.post1555279966950015885..comments2024-02-27T10:53:04.581+01:00Comments on paperpools: whatever happened to the war on tea?Helen DeWitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07619602559096610012noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375681131276548542.post-68349493978339092732007-09-19T09:30:00.000+00:002007-09-19T09:30:00.000+00:00I had heard something similar on NPR but not as in...I had heard something similar on NPR but not as in-depth. <BR/>Interestingly enough, in terms of a kinf of roll-back of laws which outlaw the drug, California, of course, perscribes the use of Medical marijuana- but I have always wondered: If you can't grow it legally, then where does this perscribed marijuana come from? <BR/>Also, Seattle passed Initiative 75 in 2003 which is an ordinance that makes "personal adult marijuana use the city's lowest law enforcement priority" - interesting. More or less, this means that if a person is caught smoking pot by a police officer then they are simply asked to put it out and move along.<BR/>"Anonymous" has a good point- to wich I would add that, of course, America is basically just over-medicated as a whole... for example: when I had all 4 of my wisdom teeth taken out in Germany they gave me tylenol after the surgery, and when one the sockets became infected two few weeks later in Los Angeles they put me on a morphine drip. <BR/>In terms of psychological drug prescription- is it any surprise that an entire country that works all the time with little or no vaction and constant overstimulation ends-up thinking it is crazy or depressed?"Post-Google" by TAR ART RAThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06164248659631146885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375681131276548542.post-54780258851656842752007-09-18T03:59:00.000+00:002007-09-18T03:59:00.000+00:00yes but you know helen America is not that simple-...yes but you know helen America is not that simple---it's like they try to turn everything here into a drug just so they can make group sessions on how to quit and then feel like they fixed things through awareness and learning process. really, praticularly in college it seems like everything is seen as a drug---food, shopping, drinking, marijuana, even making out! (really! at info sessions they were like--some of you will choose not to drink do drugs or have sex and that is perfectly normal and should be respected by all members of the community and I was like---how are those three things the same thing---why didn't he say drugs drinks and square dancing) <BR/>things are not that simple in America in terms of drug use i think--it is really intersting to try and think why, i never knew this about mexicans.<BR/><BR/>smbAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375681131276548542.post-13229979933008844922007-09-17T22:30:00.000+00:002007-09-17T22:30:00.000+00:00Or how about give an Asian person a sip of the jas...Or how about give an Asian person a sip of the jasmine tea and he thinks he's in a Shaolin kung fu movie?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375681131276548542.post-87795176869475602542007-09-17T18:44:00.000+00:002007-09-17T18:44:00.000+00:00Yes, I thought that was interesting. Hadn't heard ...Yes, I thought that was interesting. Hadn't heard before this of a connection between drawn between banning of marijuana and any kind of ethnic or racial prejudice.Helen DeWitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07619602559096610012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375681131276548542.post-59559617095636167492007-09-17T11:23:00.000+00:002007-09-17T11:23:00.000+00:00That's interesting that anti-Mexican prejudice was...That's interesting that anti-Mexican prejudice was so crucial. I wonder what role was played by other racial prejudices. I had always heard that banning marijuana was a way to throw more black people in jail and that propaganda films were made in which white women were seduced by the weed and then ran off with black men. I keep thinking of Cleavon Little saying Where the white women at?Mithridateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09071591560485370221noreply@blogger.com