Obama’s New Fight Song: “Up with Greed!!! And Down with Weed!!!”

 

Yea right, I don’t think so

Alright Hippies put down your pitchforks, or in this case your “water pipes” and skewered s’more kebabs. I regret to announce that your beloved President, after all the self-assuming beliefs we as a Liberal society bestowed onto the man thinking that he might have been a pro-Marijuana guy, turns out not to be, wah-wah-wah. Sorry, you lose!!!! And whether or not you are an educated stoner who follows the issues or a 40 year old burnout always undecided because “politics just isn’t your thing man,” you ended up voting for the popular-golden-boy-all-star-high-school-quarterback and thought,”Hey, he is a pretty mellow guy, he may not smoke it, but he ain’t gonna tell me that I cannot smoke it.”

Well that is actually partially true, Obama is not changing any current laws regarding State Legislation passed in favor of the usage of Medicinal Marijuana. However, in another one of his saturated addresses to the nation, this time in the form of a Town and Hall Meeting, our beloved President addressed the issue publicly. I appreciate that Obama recognized with no shame that this issue which has gone unaddressed by many Politicians for too long came into the question queue with huge and staggering numbers. However, as quick as he was to praise the demand in the issue, he was just as quick to tell the world, thanks but no thanks, this administration has no interest in legalizing marijuana (or any other drug currently deemed illegal) despite the slight admission that this would be a huge stride towards raising revenues and funds towards his ridiculous Trillion Dollar Budget or even possibly aid our wailing deficit.  

Due to the sarcasm and cynicism, I bet you are probably confused on my position regarding the full Legalization of Marijuana in the United States. Again, like any social issue like gay marriage (which I support) or abortion (which I believe is not my right to decide for someone else), it just is not that easy to pick a side without weighing out the cons to your argument on this matter.

Now, generally speaking, paying no mind to the current state of distress in this country is in and what the current year is and how I believe, even though I do not smoke it, that it is wrong to illegalize such a natural crop that has never been linked to any deaths whatsoever meanwhile tobacco and alcohol are free to consume (pending a few restrictions), I actually believe it is best left illegal and I will tell you why….happily!!! Simply put, we can’t handle that kind of responsibility. Sorry to say it, I do not trust our society to embrace it without exploitation say the way Europe and the Dutch do. And for the record, it is not the current avid marijuana smoking population that I do not have faith in, oh no no no…. I actually have total confidence in the average respectable pothead to still continue to go to work, pay his taxes, and not knock off a 7-11 for a pack of joints. It’s the non-smokers I worry about. The people always too afraid to smoke it because it was illegal and in the meantime always had no problem bashing pacifist reefer heads to cover up their own taboos. I am talking about cops, teachers, members of the young Republicans society, the same priests that were never punished for abusing the trust of a little boy, the everyday school bus driver, you get the picture. Too many people would not know what to do with themselves if ever allowed such a privilege only because, unlike the cool kick back examples set by the Euro-trash of today, we are a nation of scaredy-cat crybabies who would just unravel like a knit sweater after America takes it first legalized toke. Do not fight me on this, it is completely true, sadly.

However, times oh how they’ve changed and in such a short amount of time too. I have to say that I am about to reverse my opinion of the issue in leiu of our recent turmoil and our frivolously money-spending President. I may appear to be a hypocrite, but in my opinion, only a smart person can adjust their positions on their values and the implications their values have towards the written law.

First, and I have said this in previous blogs, I have no faith left in our society to ever really do the moral thing as one anymore. So who am I exactly trying to save here? Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em I say! At this point, I am hoping the future impact of legalizing marijuana only to weed out (no pun intended) the hopeless, non-contributing, shameful pot-addicts and somehow put them on a cattle train to Siberia meanwhile leaving behind a society of enlightened and thoughtful people who will be rid of their addictions to reality TV and may start opening books as a source for entertainment. That’s a bit optimistic, chances are we will become a culture of people more addicted to fast food than ever before and spending our leisure time comfortably on our couches having no strength or will-power to do our own laundry. But hey, it is pretty much what we have now and think about it, your cousin Bobby isn’t going to jail for selling that herb anymore because he doesn’t have any customers anymore because America buys its pot from the AMPM (Circle K for you East Coast people) or better yet, Walmart (mmmm Chinese pot?).

On a side note, I do not condone the legalization of any other illegal drug or narcotic simply because I have changed my mind on marijuana. Hard drugs solve nothing and any real drug aficionado will tell you the best illegal narcotics are not even made domestically. So I find it counterproductive to legalize things like cocaine, heroin, opium, etc. besides their terrifyingly addictive qualities, monies used to purchased such exports would only profit countries (and quite possibly terrorist organizations) in Central and South America and Southeast Asia instead putting money back in our own pockets here at home.

This is just the moral issue I addressed which really does not mean diddly to me when thinking about the financial crisis legalizing marijuana can solve today in our country. I guess what really chaps my ass is yet again, Obama. He has no problem being the beacon of revolutionary (many argue radical) ideas being funded through the unconstitutional means (ironic be it that he is a Constitutional lawyer) of printing money or inevitably taxing one of the social classes against his own campaign promises, but not considering, or at least allowing it to swirl in his brain for a second, the breakthrough he would make for the thinking and understanding of our mentally impotent society by pushing forward some real legislation that could honestly solve so many problems and even play a heavy role in his alternative energy strategy.

Does Obama even know how versatile cannabis is? How unlike tobacco, cannabis re-nourishes the soil that it grows in like soy. How hemp is one of the most durable materials on the planet and has proven to be able to make paper (thus reducing deforestation) and even create fabrics for clothing inherently jump-starting our own textile industry hence minimizing the importation of clothes made in sweat shops from third-world countries who laugh at us. Or simply even for the use of marijuana, by smoking it. By making it legal we first put most if not all of the half-assed part-time drug dealing population out of business. Secondly, if done correctly, it will be priced right so consumers will be spending a smaller amount for a legal consumer item which gets funneled back into our government deficit and budget fund. Not to mention that there are so many people today that already know how to grow its vcannabis anyway that quite possibly our government could license these people and create jobs for people who are already experts in this field instead of having to wait for college graduates with degrees in botany to break into the work force. Plus we would stop overcrowding our prisons. The fiscal beneficial repercussions seem to be endless. Yet here we go again, printing more money to pay for shit we just do not need now.

Damn people give weed a chance. Its just a leaf. Its not made of bullets and you do not need a syringe to use it. It is as old as time and finally has made strides towards impacting the medicinal community. Cmon Mr. Obama, Mr. Progressive, you better give this another look’s see, because whatever you got going on from your poor judgement in some of your appointees to giving AIG more and more unearned taxpayers dollar, maybe its time to give the floor to the overlooked solution. Just a thought? 

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