------------------------------------------ A bipartisan measure to end federal criminalization of the personal use of marijuana was introduced today in Congress for the first time since 1937. The Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2011 was co-sponsored by Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank and Texas Republican Ron Paul---along with Reps. Cohen (D-TN), Conyers (D-MI), Polis (D-CO), and Lee (D-CA)---and would stop the prosecution of adults who use or possess marijuana. The law would remove THC, the psychoactive component of cannabis, as well as the plant itself, from the “schedule” of the Controlled Substance Act of 1970. The Marihuana Tax Act was passed in 1937. Language in the new bill is similar to the language of the bill that repealed prohibition in 1933 and would nullify the conflicts between state laws---like in California, where for all intents and purposes, pot is pretty much legal---and Federal drug laws. Contact your Congresscritter.
now i think i know what you tried to say to me how you suffered for your sanity how you tried to set them free they would not listen they're not listening still perhaps they never will --Don McLean from Starry Starry Night ---------------------------------------------------------------------- paintings by Vincent Van Gogh
Bruce Springsteen If I Should Fall Behind --------------------------------------------------------------------- now everyone dreams of a love lasting and true but you and i know what this world can do so let's make our steps clear that the other may see i'll wait for you if i should fall behind wait for me ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, O Universe. Nothing for me is too early or too late, which is in due time for thee. There is one light of the sun, though it is interrupted by walls, mountains and infinite other things. There is one common substance, though it is distributed among countless bodies which have their several qualities. There is one soul, though it is distributed among several natures and individual limitations. There is one intelligent soul, though it seems to be divided. --Marcus Aurelius
she hides in an attic concealed on a shelf behind volumes of literature based on herself and runs across the pages like some tiny elf knowing that it's hard to find stuff way back in her mind winds up spending all of her time trying to memorize every line sweet Lorraine, ah, sweet Lorraine
sweet lady of death wants me to die so she can come sit by my bedside and sigh and wipe away the tears from all my friends eyes then softly she will explain just exactly who was to blame for causing me to go insane and finally blow out my brain sweet Lorraine, ah, sweet Lorraine
well you know that it's a shame and a pity you were raised up in the city and you never learned nothing 'bout country ways oh 'bout country ways
the joy of life she dresses in black with celestial secrets engraved in her back and her face keeps flashing that she's got the knack but you know when you look into her eyes all she's learned she's had to memorize and the only way you'll ever get her high is to let her do her thing and then watch you die sweet Lorraine, ah, sweet Lorraine
now she's the one who gives us all those magical things and reads us stories out of the I Ching then she passes out a whole new basket of rings that when you put on your hand makes you one of the Angel Band and gives you the power to be a man but what it does for her you never quite understand sweet Lorraine, ah, sweet Lorraine
well you know that it's a shame and a pity you were raised up in the city and you never learned nothing 'bout country ways oh 'bout country ways...
Tom Waits: Warm Beer and Cold Women
Tom Waits: Gun Street Girl
