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This is one of those sit in the backyard and get high with the dogs and chickens kinds of mornings. (at Delta 9 House & Studios)
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Christian Nation Does Not Do Unto Others
While driving to a party early last evening (it was still twilight), I’m stopped in traffic at SE Powell and 84th when I see something that saddened me. For non-Portlanders, we’re talking about a two-lane boulevard (Powell) with a center turn lane, just two blocks from a state highway (Hwy 213, or 82nd), with very heavy traffic. There, winding slowly through the cars on Powell backed up for the…
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Americans Support Marijuana Legalization, But Do They Support Pot Shops?
Kevin Sabet and the prohibitionist prudes at Project SAMUEL (Smart Approaches to Marijuana Use Except Legalization) claim that recent polls showing 60-percent-plus support for marijuana legalization are skewed because they offer a choice of only prohibition or commercial legalization. Sabet likes to think that when Americans are offered kinder, gentler drug war options, the support for…
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SEC Championship II - The Alabama Do-Over
SEC Championship II – The Alabama Do-Over
Because the SEC is so awesome! Why? Because they play other schools in the SEC, which, of course, is awesome! That’s why we put an SEC team that didn’t even win its division in the playoffs over Ohio State, which won the B1G, because the B1G just isn’t as awesome as the SEC, because they don’t play against SEC schools. Meanwhile, those awesome SEC schools (aside from the ones in the national…
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Oh No! People Who Can Legally Smoke Pot Are Smoking Pot!
There’s a story out on Colorado where Smart Colorado, the anti-pot people, are lamenting that the rate of marijuana use went up for those 18-25 (even though it dropped for those 12-17). So what? Five out of eight of the people aged 18-25 can legally smoke pot! I’d EXPECT the 21-25s to be smoking more pot after legalization, and I’m not too upset that someone old enough to vote, enlist, and buy a…
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You Can’t Afford to be Sick in America A typical day in America: Honey, are you *sure* you're going in to work today?
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How a Third Party Can Win: Take Over One of the Two Parties
1956 GOP Platform There is a meme going around that shows the Republican Party platform from 1956. It supports helping the poor, providing healthcare, yada yada a bunch of stuff you’d expect on a Bernie Bro policy platform. I’m glad it is circulating and making people go WTF, but I’m sad that few can learn the actual lesson embedded within that meme, which is to ask yourself – how did the modern…
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Oregon Pot Shops ID Kids Better Than Booze Bars
So, I got rather riled up yesterday about the 76% compliance rate racked up by Oregon pot shops during the last five OLCC minor decoy operations. DAMN IT, I thought. One in four teens could buy weed at an Oregon pot shop? That’s not good for our movement. But then I wondered… what was the compliance rate in the last five alcohol stings? So you know me; I look shit up. The rate for the last five…
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When It Comes to Dating, No Means Stop
OK, I can’t hold back. The Aziz Ansari thing must be addressed. Back in the day when I had long hair and was rocking stages from Emmett to Mountain Home, I observed a simple rule when it came to making out with women who had until recently been strangers. No Means Stop. Simply put, if I’m making out with said lady, kissing, necking, petting, undressing, and so forth in the typically escalating…
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Trolling the Joker
Just caught up on Kevin Sabet’s latest tweets (he’s blocked me, but the Incognito Browser mode on Chrome lets me take a peek): https://twitter.com/KevinSabet/status/953014854922719232 He’s thrilled that NJ Gov Phil Murphy had to sit onstage while a black Baptist preacher railed about how legalization was going to destroy minority neighborhoods. He thinks that will temper his zeal to legalize.…
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Yes, Pete Sessions, Your Problem Is That You Haven't Smoked Marijuana
Yes, Pete Sessions, Your Problem Is That You Haven’t Smoked Marijuana
NEWS: VA Secretary admits VA can research medical marijuana, then punts to Congress; Rep. Barbara Lee introduces the Marijuana Justice Act; GUEST: Dr. Jahan Marcu from Americans for Safe Access on government shutdown and effect on DOJ vs. medical marijuana states; RANT: Project SAMUEL is getting desperate in its latest poll. Medical…
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#Americans for Safe Access#Dept of Justice#Dept of Treasury#Jahan Marcu#Ohio#ONDCP#Phil Scott#Project SAMUEL#Sigal Mandelker#Vermont
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Happy New Year! This is the thinnest I've been in years! (at Delta 9 House & Studios)
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The One-Armed Homeless Man
While driving to a party early last evening (it was still twilight), I'm stopped in traffic at SE Powell and 84th when I see something that saddened me.
For non-Portlanders, we're talking about a two-lane boulevard (Powell) with a center turn lane, just two blocks from a state highway (Hwy 213, or 82nd), with very heavy traffic.
There, winding slowly through the cars on Powell backed up for the stoplight on 82nd was a strange-looking shirtless caucasian man wearing a pair of sweatpants that were just barely hanging onto his wiry, tanned body.
His hair was a disheveled, matted mess. He wore no shoes. Most strikingly, he had no left arm - entirely, like, all the way to the shoulder and no shoulder blade.
Every few steps he would stop. His knees would knock together and he'd twitch. I can only compare it to what it looks like when you really, really, going to shit yourself in about six seconds and you're exerting every muscle trying not to.
Now the traffic is beginning to move. Cars on the oncoming side of Powell are slowly trying to maneuver around him. He makes it almost to the sidewalk, then collapses into the gutter near it.
"This guy is going to get killed," I said. I had Lori Nelson Duckworth, who was with me, get on the phone and call 911. There was a bit of time on hold - it is Halloween weekend, but, still, 911 puts you on hold? - and finally we got a 911 operator.
Lori describes the scene above, but, oddly, in her description of the man she leaves out the part about his missing arm. The operator (I can hear her on speakerphone) says she's gotten a few calls already about the incident.
Lori's emphasizing that he collapsed and is dangerously close to traffic. The operator's asking follow-up questions to determine if she should just send police or add an ambulance.
I can't take it anymore. "THE GUY'S ONLY GOT ONE ARM!" I interject into the conversation.
Then, the operator floored me. "Oh, yes," she said, with a hint of recognition in her tone. "He's a local transient in the area. He's a regular."
A regular. She said it like I heard bartenders in my playing days talk about the drunk falling off the barstool at 3pm as me and the band were setting up for the night's gig.
There was nothing regular about that man. There should be nothing regular about first responders knowing someone as a "regular."
I don't know the poor man's story, but clearly, he's not just going to "go out and get a job" or "pull himself up by his bootstraps." You gotta have boots first and I don't see him acing any job interviews.
I think of all the dumb shit our tax money gets spent on - from little things like paying some state inspector to come out to my back yard to make sure I'm only cultivating twelve total cannabis plants for the three patients who collectively paid the state about a thousand bucks for the privilege, to the big things like spending billions on an F-35 fighter plane program that even the Pentagon doesn't want - and I marvel how within that spectrum of spending there's not a dump truck full of money to, you know, promote the general welfare?
I know for a fact there are many young people with social work degrees who are driving Lyft or working Starbucks because there are no jobs for them. I know for a fact there are homes everywhere sitting empty and owners who'd take a government check to house people.
Can we cancel just one F-35 and shovel that money toward helping the least among us? I was told we are a Christian nation; isn't that like the whole Jesus Prime Directive?
My theory is that those in power consciously don't want to help them. They need there to be a hell on earth to act as the stick when the carrots of a paycheck and health care lose their pull on the wage slaves. "Man, my job and boss and commute really sucks... but I don't want to end up collapsed homeless in the street!"
If you had a sexual predator or a bully for a boss, or worked in unsafe or unsanitary conditions, or were being cheated of hours and overworked, but you knew you could quit and have a safety net that would cover your health care, housing, and food for as long as you needed to find a new job, you would.
With such a safety net, a sort of competitive workplace evolution would occur. Wages would have to increase, benefits become more attractive, in order to lure people out of the safety net. Bosses would have to be nicer and workplaces more inclusive and welcoming. Most of all, CEOs and execs would have to make far less money.
And we can't have that. We're a Christian nation, all right, but it's that Joel Osteen / Creflo Dollar style "prosperity gospel" Christianity. That's why the one-armed man is a "regular."
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Ramirez was an effete snob. I took his weed and smoked his bong before his joint was even cold. Oh. I see. That was not his bong. That was your bong. And he never told you. Maybe I smoked it harder than he'd ever seen. And secretly, he longed for my return... Sacred bud, Highlander! Remember what Ramirez taught you! #HappyHalloweed #ThereCanBeOnlyOne (at Delta 9 House & Studios)
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1985 Idaho Statesman clipping on my father’s recovery from alcoholism and return to Boise State University to become a drug counselor.
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