Issue 70
News: Medicinal Marijuana.
Fairly recently, I had dinner at Bennigan's with a married couple who are friends of my parents. The husband is an arch-conservative, so much so that, in 2000's election, he did not vote for Chimpy del Führerdente (read: pResident Bush, with sections of names recalling A chimp, Hitler, and Castro), but actually voted for Pat Buchanan (No, they are not from Florida if anyone asks, but from Chicago, like my parents and I are). He actually mentioned that he "read everything on [my] blog" and particularly mentioned my occasional references to Marijuana and my pro-legalisation stance. I did not ask him about his opinion on my frequent writings on religion on the blog. He said that Marijuana is dangerous stuff, especially when driving (with that said, while I do firmly believe Marijuana should be legalised, I don't think that legalisation should extend to being on pot while driving.) What he also said was that he believed that it is an uphill battle trying to keep America pot-free and that it might as well be legalised. After this, my mother mentioned that she mentioned that she was considered for becoming one of a few people in Illinois to get access to Medicinal Marijuana, if it were to be legalised here, which it wasn't, and she declined because she can't stand smoke, an intolerance which has continued to me. With this in mind, I decided to look up information on medicinal marijuana and I found that every time that marijuana's effects on various illnesses, it has been shown to be superior to most commercially available drugs in some illnesses, such as illness due to Chemotherapy, and glaucoma. Since the first post-criminalisation studies on medicinal marijuana came to light, it was legalised by several states, although the federal government has yet to legalise it, thinking it will pave the way to harder drugs being legalised, even if ending the War on Drugs which eventually came with criminalisation could benefit both major parties: Republicans could cut taxes and Democrats can put the money to better use.
Band Name of the Day: "Pretty Dumb, Asinine". More of an album title, but it came from the dumblaws site I will link to below.
Series Idea of the Day: A humanoid alien who has worked in the Earth studies department of an interstellar college goes to Earth as a college student. One defining feature is his "Addiction" to opium, which he only uses to lower his IQ (down to 155) and help him speak English.
Film review of the Day: Mighty Aphrodite. Woody Allen's film about a writer who adopts an intelligent child and becomes obsessed with his birth mother who turns out to be a porn star with very little intellect and a Mickey Mouse voice. Of all the films I have seen of Woody Allen, this displaces Manhattan by far as his best R-rated film.
Quote of the Day: "Where is the prince sufficiently educated to know that for seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm?"
_____Voltaire, Letter 160 to Frederick the Great (April 6, 1767).
Link of the Day: Some of the stupidest laws on the planet.
Fairly recently, I had dinner at Bennigan's with a married couple who are friends of my parents. The husband is an arch-conservative, so much so that, in 2000's election, he did not vote for Chimpy del Führerdente (read: pResident Bush, with sections of names recalling A chimp, Hitler, and Castro), but actually voted for Pat Buchanan (No, they are not from Florida if anyone asks, but from Chicago, like my parents and I are). He actually mentioned that he "read everything on [my] blog" and particularly mentioned my occasional references to Marijuana and my pro-legalisation stance. I did not ask him about his opinion on my frequent writings on religion on the blog. He said that Marijuana is dangerous stuff, especially when driving (with that said, while I do firmly believe Marijuana should be legalised, I don't think that legalisation should extend to being on pot while driving.) What he also said was that he believed that it is an uphill battle trying to keep America pot-free and that it might as well be legalised. After this, my mother mentioned that she mentioned that she was considered for becoming one of a few people in Illinois to get access to Medicinal Marijuana, if it were to be legalised here, which it wasn't, and she declined because she can't stand smoke, an intolerance which has continued to me. With this in mind, I decided to look up information on medicinal marijuana and I found that every time that marijuana's effects on various illnesses, it has been shown to be superior to most commercially available drugs in some illnesses, such as illness due to Chemotherapy, and glaucoma. Since the first post-criminalisation studies on medicinal marijuana came to light, it was legalised by several states, although the federal government has yet to legalise it, thinking it will pave the way to harder drugs being legalised, even if ending the War on Drugs which eventually came with criminalisation could benefit both major parties: Republicans could cut taxes and Democrats can put the money to better use.
Band Name of the Day: "Pretty Dumb, Asinine". More of an album title, but it came from the dumblaws site I will link to below.
Series Idea of the Day: A humanoid alien who has worked in the Earth studies department of an interstellar college goes to Earth as a college student. One defining feature is his "Addiction" to opium, which he only uses to lower his IQ (down to 155) and help him speak English.
Film review of the Day: Mighty Aphrodite. Woody Allen's film about a writer who adopts an intelligent child and becomes obsessed with his birth mother who turns out to be a porn star with very little intellect and a Mickey Mouse voice. Of all the films I have seen of Woody Allen, this displaces Manhattan by far as his best R-rated film.
Quote of the Day: "Where is the prince sufficiently educated to know that for seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm?"
_____Voltaire, Letter 160 to Frederick the Great (April 6, 1767).
Link of the Day: Some of the stupidest laws on the planet.
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