Senator Tom Harkin: Marijuana Makes People Sell Their Children
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
It’s 2008, and that teenager drug marijuana is still raping our children. But why does that have to be illegal? According to The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), some person wrote to Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin “asking him to justify why medicinal cannabis is still illegal” after the American College of Physicians recommended it shouldn’t be. It merited a hilarious reply from Harkin, which noted many of pot’s notorious doom scenarios: “the small child whose parents are so addicted to illegal drugs that they sell everything including perhaps their own children to obtain a fix.” Harkin knows the routine: smoke up, eat gyro, play Legend of Zelda, sell children to pirates for more pot, repeat. The full, horrifying letter, after the jump. MORE »
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Before we sign off to either have dinner with our extended family and celebrate the birth of Christ or, alternately, get Chinese and go to a movie, we wanted to bring you some actual good tidings. On this joyous Christmas Eve, the Houston Chronicle is boastfully reporting just how cheap weed has gotten in Texas, and how the price hasn’t changed since, like, Reagan. The going rate has been $60 to $80 per ounce since about 1982 and, my oh my, in this crazy world isn’t it nice to have something to hold on to? Point of information: after doing a little back-of-the-napkin math, we at Wonkette have determined that since 1982, the dollar has lost about half its value, and thus, when you spend $60 on cheap Mexican marijuana today, it’s like buying it for $30 in 1982. Smoke up, Houston. It’s motherfucking Christmas time. [
When I was in college, the bud from the Pacific Northwest was the good stuff one had to get from a trusted dealer, and the Mexican stuff was the cheap shit the guys in Harvard Square mixed with oregano and sold you (not that I would know from personal experience). This was back when the dollar was strong, imports were cheap and my roommate was friends with a dealer called The Magic Man. Alas, those days are no more, and not just because my old roommate is married and The Magic Man is likely in prison. The other reasons why, after the jump.
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