The issue of legalizing pot (marijuana) is a topic that we have avoided because "we don't have a dog in that fight." Hence we have not been monitoring that debate. The World's Laziest Journalist News Organization doesn't get very many news tips and so when a discussion about pot included the information that pot is a very effective (perhaps the best) way for people to cope with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) after being in combat. Then, we realized that one particular American Political Party may be hypocritical about their support for veterans.
If one political party is very enthusiastic about sending America's younger generation off to any and all wars on God's green earth, but then oppose making a very effective means of treating PTSD available to veterans, then, perhaps, those hypocrites should be called out for exemplifying the "alligator mouth-hummingbird ass" attitude. They promise all sorts of support for retuning vets but hen when they get a look at the amount that will be due on the bill, they balk.
Conservatives seem to be traumatized by pot itself.
Back in the Sixties, as we recall, a NYC newsman was arrested on air during a TV news broadcast for holding a "roach" (i.e. marijuana cigarette) up as a visual aid for his report on the devil weed. We never did learn how that worked out for that particular journalist.
At first it seems that an alliance between combat veterans and war protesting hippies is a oxymoron concept but as we were reminded this week whilst re-reading Tom Wolfe's "The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test:" the first rule of the bus (page 70) is: "All of us are beginning to do our thing, and we're going to keep doing it, right out front, and none of us are going to deny what other people are doing."
What next? Will today's music fans make Mrele Haggard's "Me and Wounded Vets" the new hippie anthem?
Conservatives must be alarmed by the fact that a California ballot measure retroactively changed the status of pot (AKA cannabis sativa) smoking to an infraction and at the same time a similar change was ordered in New York City.
Yikes! The next thing you know the pot smoking hippies will try to levitate the Pentagon.
If this trend continues the gateway to the future will be found in the best selling books from the Sixties!
It's just like Ken Kesey said (on page 78): "Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus. If you're on the bus, and you get left behind, then you'll find it again. If you are off the bus in the first place -- then it won't make a damn."
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