I wasn't aware that this issue, Cannabis legalization, was male dominated. I don't see any reason why it should be. I'll take your word for it, and I meant no offense.

I realized that around straight men, I don't have to have anything interesting or intelligent to say, they'll fall at my feet like a genius as long as I wear a tight sweater.

It's hard to have a normal ego given the amount of abnormal attention my breasts bring. Either I feel like a goddess or a hunted animal.

It's just really weird.

Okay relax guys, it's a fantasy, I wouldn't really stick hatpins in your butts. It's an old fashioned thing. We don't need hatpins any more. Now we have pepper spray.

But to be fair, what's even worse than the men are the politically correct flat chested women who assume I must have implants and proceed to treat me like the Whore of Babylon because according to them I have surgically altered my body to please men. They never bother to ask me first whether this is true. They just know it's true, because that's what their politics tells them.

Breasts make people crazy. Men and women. They become stupid and say and do stupid and sometimes offensive and hurtful things over breasts.

I don't know why, but it happens.

But God forbid, don't show a woman's breast, or burning cannabis. I guess it shows you where our priorities are. The ruling elite needs guys to go off to war & kill people. Getting high & looking at breasts doesn't help Exxon/Mobil at all.

And if everyone's sitting around smoking & looking at breasts and not shooting each other, we won't need any prisons, police, or SWAT teams either. Not hard to figure out the big picture.

Will the police ignore it if they find it in your pocket, like in the Netherlands...or will they confiscate it without pressing charges?

I guess wondering about that is all wild conjecture based on whether or not they intend to follow the will of the people, which they've already pretty much said they wouldn't.

Does anyone know if the democratic...the popular vote...on any other matter than the legalization of cannabis, has been ignored in this country before?

The outrage and desolation I felt over the overruling of the Washington D.C. vote for medical use of cannabis, is still with me. I still can't believe the "little kings" are getting away with ignoring "the will of the people" as expressed in that holy of holies in this country, the popular vote. I knew, for sure, at that moment, that we, citizens of the United States of America were victims of of a gaggle of despots. I didn't believe it could happen like that here in the "wellspring of democracy".

They're getting bolder, but they still have the facts wrong. Now we know that when the "smoke" hits the brain, new brain cells start being created, not killed off.

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'That '70s Show' Goes To Pot Again

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The first episode of That '70s Show drew fire in some quarters for its depiction of high school juniors under the influence of marijuana. No actual smoking was shown, then or even now. But the scene in which Eric Foreman (Topher Grace) watched the kitchen walls undulate left no doubt about what he and his pals had just done in their hazy basement lair.

Fox entertainment president Peter Roth blew smoke at a summer 1998 session with TV critics.

"It is definitely not our intention to in any way endorse or glamorize drugs," he said. The show's co-creator, Terry Turner, added that putting grass out to pasture in the '70s "would be like doing The Untouchables without ever mentioning Prohibition."

The republic survived while That '70s Show got bolder over time. So much so that Wednesday's opener finds mom Kitty Foreman (Debra Jo Rupp) getting royally stoned (off-camera) after she and cantankerous husband Red (Kurtwood Smith) find three bags of marijuana in that well-seasoned basement.

Their only son Eric has gone off to Africa (translation: Mr. Grace has left the show), but holdover friend Steve Hyde (Danny Masterson) sternly lectures giggly Kitty.

"Here are the facts," he says. "When the smoke hits the brain, the cells start dying. This process causes impaired judgment and hallucinations and a lot of other wonderful things."

Kitty goes on to eat a box of uncooked spaghetti before the show leaves the rest of its pot-smoking to the now twentysomething main characters and brain-dead Leo the Hippie (Tommy Chong in a recurring role).

Yet, Hickenlooper stressed: "The bottom line is, it doesn't change state law. I think it's more symbolic than anything else."

Gee, if the vote had taken place 20 years ago????... Obviously, Loopy-hick is stuck in 1985....we need to ask; can we really accept people in office who cannot progress or adapt with the times?

Let's change that to "freedom is reawakening."

It's simple - the cops can still use state law, but the mayor needs those voters! His job depends on it, directly. That's why these local initiatives are great - maybe the mayor can ignore the change in law, but he can't ignore the voters' attitude and beliefs.

He now has to at least keep his mouth shut. The majority of people who send him his paycheck now support MJ legalization, and he knows it. One more crack about Doritos and he'll be back to hawking beer, and missing all those sweet kickbacks & free home improvement work.

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By Jon Sarche, Associated Press Writer

November 2, 2005

DENVER -- Residents of the Mile High City have voted to legalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana for adults. Authorities, though, said state possession laws will be applied instead.

With 100 percent of precincts reporting early Wednesday, 54 percent, or 56,001 voters, cast ballots for the ordinance, while 46 percent, or 48,632 voters, voted against it.

Under the measure, residents over 21 years old could possess up to an ounce of marijuana.

"We educated voters about the facts that marijuana is less harmful to the user and society than alcohol," said Mason Tvert, campaign organizer for SAFER, or Safer Alternatives For Enjoyable Recreation. "To prohibit adults from making the rational, safer choice to use marijuana is bad public policy."

Bruce Mirken of the Washington, D.C.-based Marijuana Policy Project said he hoped the approval will launch a national trend toward legalizing a drug whose enforcement he said causes more problems than it cures.

Seattle, Oakland, Calif., and a few college towns already have laws making possession the lowest law enforcement priority.

The Denver proposal seemed to draw at least as much attention for supporters' campaign tactics as it did for the question of legalizing the drug.

Tvert argued that legalizing marijuana would reduce consumption of alcohol, which he said leads to higher rates of car accidents, domestic and street violence and crime.

The group criticized Mayor John Hickenlooper for opposing the proposal, noting his ownership of a popular brewpub. It also said recent violent crimes -- including the shootings of four people last weekend -- as a reason to legalize marijuana to steer people away from alcohol use.

Those tactics angered local officials and some voters. Opponents also said it made no sense to prevent prosecution by Denver authorities while marijuana charges are most often filed under state and federal law.

The measure would not affect the medical marijuana law voters approved in 2000. In June, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that medical marijuana laws in Colorado and nine other states would not protect licensed users from federal prosecution.

Also Tuesday, voters in the ski resort town of Telluride rejected a proposal to make possession of an ounce or less of marijuana by people 18 or older the town's lowest law enforcement priority. The measure was rejected on a vote of 308-332.

Copyright: 2005 Associated Press