drugs

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Before I lay into this topic let me say I barely know Williams. I didn’t grow up in this country and for the years I’ve been here I don’t waste my time with talk shows like his and others so I’m not 100% in the know when it comes to his repertoire. What I did find on the net about him was that he handed it to Fox news as shown in this video and for that alone he should be my hero, but he really isn’t.

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Another politician gets caught being hypocritical. Doesn’t matter which side of the aisle they’re on it seems they’re all equal in their involvement in Sex, Drugs, Crime. The upsetting part here of course is the fact that it’s people like Spitzer that have prosecuted others for their misconduct. What I find amazing is how easy it all goes over his lips. It’s like he knew that day was going to come and he just pulled out the right script for the right occasion.

Whether it’s Mark Foley who was protecting teenagers on the internet yet using the same internet to hit on congress pages, or the religious City leader in Washington who was caught was a gay prostitute doing meth - the level of hypocrisy in this country is so incredible - what’s more incredible is the fact that people still listen to these crooks and liars. The more they push for something in terms of legislation the more it seems that’s what they’re guilty of doing the thing they’re trying to outlaw. It’s like they’re running political lives based on the sins they know they’ve committed.

We might as well get used to it. The United States doesn’t win every war. Moreover, the wars our government proclaims to be wars are basically badly thought up mistakes. I’ve always been a critical thinker and the moment our government proclaims any new type of program I look into the fine print to see what it’s really about.

Source: Ben Wallace-Wells - “How America Lost the War on Drugs”
After Thirty-Five Years and $500 Billion, Drugs Are as Cheap and Plentiful as Ever: An Anatomy of a Failure.

We need more reports like this. There are over 50,000 different product derivable from hemp but we’re still using ecologically irresponsible procedures just because the lobbies won’t give up their grounds.

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Unless your royalty, I think everyone goes through this on nearly daily basis. You’re standing in some store, whether it’s sporting goods store, picking up some fast food or something similar. You can’t help but wonder why the people that are working the counter are moving as if they were on Tranquilizers (which by now many people probably are, in form of various prescription drugs). 20 minutes after getting in line you finally get served, although there were only 2 people ahead of you.

Welcome to another episode of me getting all worked up about something. I’m hoping by now it serves as some type of entertainment, I’m seeing this as my anger management class. So again here we are, in the “Land of the Free” and I’m going to point out another piece of legislation that’s in place in South Florida.

I guess just in time for me having moved down here, they remove the right of anyone to sell ‘tobacco pipes’. At first I thought ehhh whatever there will be way to get to the merchandise needed, there’s always a way. Few years into the game now I have to say: I was completely wrong.

What strikes me is the fact that I would say a much greater percentage of the population in South Florida engages in some type of drug usage - whether it’s hard or soft drugs. Whether it’s the well-off lawyer, regular Joe coming home from a day on the construction site, or you’re child’s elementary school teacher - they’re all getting high. Of course nobody admits to it, because oh the same that would follow. What has become of this country where everyone is so scared of what other people think of them, or what type of ramification their choice of drugs would have on their job situation. Needless to say certain jobs require the individual to be clean at all times, however just as many jobs don’t require this.

So we’ve established the fact that lots of people smoke down here, and I’m almost certain a lot of the police men do. When I see the police officers drive around South Beach I’m rarely thinking of individuals who keep a clean slate in terms of their intoxication records. Either way, I find it so ineffective to think that banning the tools for smoking will keep the drugs out. Fact of the matter is as long as someone can light the herb, somebody can inhale the fumes. So in the end it’s a rather futile missino to try to take away the utensils that are needed to enjoy the drug. Imagine they wanted to keep Alcoholics from drinking beer. Would they take away their mugs? Oh No!! the inhumanity. Anyway, I think I got my point across. The law sucks, it has to go and everyone knows it. But wait - it sells good as a campaign slogan “were tough on drugs (err we mean plastic that people use to consume drugs)” yeah that’s the person I want to run a high level office.

Anyway, had to get that out there real quick before the desire to even talk about it with someone ceases.

Ok here’s the deal. So I’m coming home from whatever - drivin’ down I-95 heading towards Hallandale Beach blvd and where I usually never take the actual exit for Hallandale - that night I had a brainfart and got off there anyway. Why not got off on that exit? Well it’s quite simple - everyone now and then the local law enforcement agency conducts DUI checkpoints where they direct alltraffic into the police station and then have every car undergo a checkup.

So at some point I’m next in line and the police officer leans into my window, telling me that this was a routine DUI checkpoint they did every now and then whereupon I replied “..so how’s that workin’ out for ya?” not sure if I set the tone for the rest of the proceedings - you be the judge.

Anyway so the officer tells me to pull into this parking spot located right next to him - I comply. He then asks me for the second time whether I’ve had anything to drink and I answer “No Sir” - he asks me again whether I’m sure and I again assure him of the fact that I had not had any alcoholic beverages. I even offered to do a breathalizer test - also not sure whether that helped out my situation. Next thing I know the officer is making hand gestures and calling over to one of the other officers “Get the dog over here…” - few moments later a moustached officer with what looked like a black lab entered the arena - set the dog off on the car and the dog quite honestly went ballistic. Actually this was to my great surprise as I had cleaned the car with great detail just a few days prior to this incident. What I didn’t realize at that point - nor did the officers I think - is the fact that the car was full of cat hair - from an earlier Feline-Transport mission.

While the dog is trying to sniff the hell out of everything in the car - the officer that had initially told me to pull out of the line was searching me. Had to take off my shoes, socks, he started grabbin’ all around my genitals - I offered to take off my pants but was told that wouldn’t be necessary. Then another officer standing near me said “Oh well you know what we haven’t had any complaints of physical abuse yet tonight” - I decided to just make a mental note of that comment and not to vocalize my thoughts - wise decision I think. Next the officer with the dog comes to me, lets the dog get a good wiff of me and sure enough - the dog is crazy about my clothes too. The officers, obviously frustrated for not having found anything started to corner me. The K-9 officer came disgustingly close to me and told me that I was one of those ’smart guys’ and in addition to that he recommended me not pushing his buttons. I replied “Sir I’m not aware of what crime I’m being accused” - the officer started getting loud telling me I had 30 seconds to tell him what the f**k was going on - where I had tossed out the drugs, etc. I repeated my initial claim that I didn’t have anything on me before entering the complex nor did I have any on me now. I was then told in less than a polite way I must say - that with the dog going off alone and hair samples they could put me to jail. Oddly enough they then decided to go ahead and just write me a citation for not having a florida drivers license yet after having been driving in the state for 1 1/2 years.

Now I’m looking back at this event and and on the one hand side of course we can feel anger towards the police officers. But I decided to take a different approach at the situation. I figured this: the police officer that conducted the search of the car with the dog had a speech impediment and what he really was trying to do was get a drug-bust-bonus. In other words a special cash bonus reward for busting someone for drug possession.
The idea was for him to bust enough totally harmless drug consumers for him to raise enough money to attend a speech class. In the end he was just trying to better himself and saw no other means but using bonuses to pay for his endeavour. I figure that the officer that initially told me to park to get searched must also have had an experience that motivated him to go hard on me. Most probably his wife had been injured by a stoned driver and she ended paralyzed from the hip down. So all he was trying to do was raise money for his wife’s trust fund which was setup for his kids’ college fund and for her medical costs.

What I take away from this night is the fact that I really should have turned around and loaded up my pockets and driven straight into the DUI checkpoint again and find those two officers so they could bust me. I feel guilty…