It's 4/20 and, whenever I hear that Bob Dylan song I think back to how I thought it was a literal celebration of the joys of marijuana. Now, I think it might have been about human rights abuse and the barbaric practice of stoning. Either way, makes me wanna light one up.
But, I don't do that anymore. The last time was about 14 years ago after seeing the Rolling Stones at Dodger Stadium. I got home and burned a fattie with my father in law.
Yup. My father in law. One of the coolest dudes on the planet. A man who welcomed me into his family without hesitation, even though I was dating his daughter. A man who let me hang out with him next to the BBQ at family gatherings and we would drink beer and sample the meat off the grill before anyone else got a taste. A man who never hesitates to encourage and stand by those around him. A man who appreciates good times, good food, good drink, and a good buzz. A man with soul.
Which makes me wonder.
Are we heading toward some far-right-morality swing? I hope not because I don't think people who talk about morality are that moral in the first place. I think they're full of shit. If you're one of them, you need to read this MORE than the choir I might appear to be preaching to.
You see, 4/20 is special to me, even though I don't smoke pot anymore. I don't even have the desire to do it. But 4/20 is all about freedom of choice. It's bigger than just a few plants being harvested for a good buzz. It's about being able to choose your buzz OUTSIDE the realm of corporate control. Alcohol is corporate controlled. Cigarettes are corporate controlled. The food we eat is corporate controlled, unless we buy it from a local farmer before it hits the corporate controlled marketplace.
Unless we grow it. Like marijuana. Who has the self-delusional right to tell you that you can't grow something in your own backyard for personal consumption? Nobody.
And yet, there are people with enough money and influence to create laws that accomplish just that.
But the revolution has begun. And those of us on the side of free choice have to win. We have to win all over the globe if only to spite barbarians who are bloodthirsty for control and money. These people will preach religious peace out of one side of their mouth then kill you for not submitting to their version of peace.... or their version of the 'peace' of the pie.
And don't get me started on the thought police. You see, 4/20 is all about controlling your thought. Because, when you alter your own perspective, independently, and freely, and openly, you see things from a perspective that those living under the illusion of power cannot grasp. You have taken yourself outside the realm of their influence - which is all around you on billboards, TV, radio, computers - and into the realm of introspection and thought. This is a place they cannot touch. This is a place where new ideas come about. This is a place where you can just be free.
And if you grow your own, it's damn near free. It's about as free as it gets.
This is why I brew my own beer. After I spend a nominal amount on all-natural ingredients, I can brew something specifically to my liking and the corporate beer-mongers get nothing. Nothing.
You are told that you need to consume. Even the drug dealers masquerading as pharmaceutical companies want you to consume what they are selling. The thing is, they can't control pot. They have no say so. They can try but they can't stop it. And rightly so. They inflate costs at random, pump billions into lobbying and advertising to get you hooked on their product.
Ladies and gentlemen, if more of us smoked pot, fewer of us would be looking to these clown-suits for solutions. We'd solve them ourselves.
Oh, pot doesn't solve the problem. But pot does put you in a mental place where you can digress from the bullshit and then divorce yourself completely from it.
You wake up the next morning... walk past the TV remote without even blinking... (except for the occasional cartoon).... grab some cold pizza, and ice cold beer, and beckon a new day full of possibilities and new ideas and you are beholden only to your family and friends.
Social Darwinists, fuck off.
Cheers and happy 4/20!!!!!
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