A Good High - Priceless. Some things you can't buy. For everything else, there's cash. Cash - because let's face it, no one takes credit cards with pot.
Nothing interesting to talk about today. Go ahead and skip this entry if you don't like politics. It will bore you.
Today's lecture is... A reason weed was explicitly made illegal - Jazz
While the history of Marijuana Prohibition is a long and sordid tale, I thought a lecture about music would be amusing (weird, huh?) In any case, Marijuana and Jazz have always been pretty much inseparable. Case in point:
A little research shows that most of the best-known Jazz musicians were stoners. They were also black. I'm not going to go into the whole race lecture bit, but what happened was that the idea of "uppity blacks" and "devil music" scared people. Here is a quote fro a newspaper in 1934 about the "menace of Marihuana:"
“Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men’s shadows and look at a white woman twice.”
So if I understand correctly, one reason pot was banned was fear of black people stepping on white people's shadows. Am I the only one in the world who is offended by this?
OK that bored everyone, but it's a nice song, right?
A retrospective on song titles that also happen to include names of marijuana strains:
The Mamas & The Papas: "Blueberries for Breakfast"
Dave Rawlings Machine: "Sweet Tooth" Wainwright Louden - "Dead Skunk"
Finally, my personal favorite Smashmouth: "Flo"
Here's a new one for you: Have you ever known someone who forgot his or her finger was on the carb and didn't take it off while inhaling, but just left it there until noticing much later and nearly collapsing from smoke inhalation? Do you wonder if it is even possible?
