sitting here watching television...showing people who want other people to cast a vote to put them into a job...a pretty well paying job i might add....this is how democracys work...the uninformed electing the uninformed...when kareem abdul-jabbar suggested that most people are not well informed enough to vote on many of the issues that are put on a ballot he was chastised and ridiculed...but for the same reason that flying a large modern plane requires computer input whereas a two seater pipercub did not government is so large and complex some of the operations need to be put on autopilot...emergency voting to keep government financed due to inability of elected officials to agree on budget is a good indication of disfunction....i hear some of the candidates mentioning executive branch wanting pot criminals to be released from jail...thats all well and good except as pot becomes more available pot addiction will become more common and mental health issues will proliferate...i remember back in the early 1970s a poster became popular that showed a man with several images of his head melting and the caption 'STONED AGAIN" i think pot was one of the major components in de-railing the hippy movement....Wavy Gravy's song "I got stoned and missed it" is descriptive of the inevitable slackness that comes with pot use...i remember being told as a teenager that unlike alcohol i could not become addicted to pot...i became addicted to both...back in the 12th century there was a radical cult of Nizari muslins who were called the Assassins derived from the word "hashishin" meaning hashish eaters..they were rewarded with hash for doing assassinations...hash was eaten until tobacco became common when hash was mixed with tobacco....all the same THC the active ingredient...the reality is that THC can be a pretty addictive drug and causes behavioral problems in many people...it cannot be assumed that fewer people will be in jail if pot it legal...some people will break laws due to "cannabis use disorder"....which is a pretty broad term. ..anyhow we can't take pot use too casually anymore than we can take jailing people casually....after watching an hour of these candidates this morning i can say that there is much more heat than light being generated...
"God help that country where informers thrive! Where slander flourishes and lies contrive Kill truth by whispers and keep fraud alive. Archibald Macleish
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