Dear lawmakers:If an individual smokes marijuana, as things are right now, the state becomes the enemy of that individual, which is plainly a ridiculous state of affairs.If one wants to be happy, then there are various ways one might go about looking for happiness: perhaps by way of looking for love, or for education, or for new music...If those setting out on this most natural and human of paths find along their way that smoking marijuana goes well with any of these activities, then they have already committed a crime in even possessing it long enough to smoke it.If you do this, the law says that you have done something which makes it fitting for the state to at least temporarily deprive you of your liberty - to arrest you and possibly put you in a police cell - because you put some partly burnt particles of a plant in your body, even though you have in no way reduced anyone else's liberty in that act.It should not be down to the whims of enforcing officers whether someone is taken through the legal system for simply living their life as it is.If police find marijuana in a person's possession, this can lead to him or her being taken to court, in the run of things leading to the loss of his or her job, with an attendant reduction in happiness and usefulness to society, ...and benefitting nobody at all.As technology develops, there will be new ways to automate various kinds of oppression. Unless an equal force builds to couter it, we will be stamped on and oppressed for just liking a particular brand of happiness more than one offered say by a multinational company (drink coke!it will make you happy!), or a religion (worship this! it will make you happy!).Remember, before you vote, find out which candidate has a cannabis-friendly stance.
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LEARN SOMETING DUMBASSES READ THIS!!! **IN THE 1500'S*** The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be! Here are some facts about the1500's: These are interesting... Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married. Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the Bath water." Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Hence the saying. "It's raining cats and dogs." There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house.. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a be! d with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence. _ The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying, "Dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance way. Hence the saying, "a thresh hold." (Getting quite an education, aren't you?) In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme, "Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old." Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could, bring home the bacon. They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and chew the fat.. Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous. Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the upper crust. Lead cups were used to drink ale or whiskey. The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a wake! England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift.) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be, saved by the bell or was considered a dead ringer. And that's the truth! ..Now, whoever said History was boring! Educate
I look up to anyone who has overcome odds to be sucessful in life and are happy with were they are in life and people who have done what I aspire to. I have people who have influenced me, my father and grandfathers for teaching me how to be a man and be carry myself.