Mary Jew Wanna?

Stolen from some dude on the internet. I thought it was mildly entertaining and actually rather informative:
Jesus turns water into wine, and Uncle Sam initiates a prohibition against alcohol. God creates plants and herbs for our use, and Uncle Sam selectively legalizes them. Is there a theme here? I want to smoke marijuana, but instead I pay taxes so that I can hire police to keep me from smoking marijuana. Is vegetation really my enemy? Are my police protecting me from the vegetation, or protecting the vegetation from me? Why not just arrest all of the marijuana seeds, and lock them up for life without parole? If the plant was incarcerated, then it couldn’t grow in my back yard and seduce me with promises of stress-free relaxation, energizing motivation, a healthy appetite, and a painless body. What was your personal experience the last time that you smoked marijuana? Or perhaps, like that rascally Bill Clinton, you didn’t inhale. Or perhaps you believe the threatening propaganda of Uncle Sam’s drug czar, “Weed will make you kill and steal!” Perhaps you also believe that another “terrorist attack” is imminent – it’s a terror-code yellow this week?! You could believe everything the people on TV say – every last expert – or you could listen to that other voice, only known by the mysterious alias “Common Sense”. We call this the “Land of the Free.” However, if I want to grow a naturally-occurring, ultra-useful, God-given plant in my personally-owned back yard for my private use or consumption, I am suddenly a criminal faced with automatic years of jail time and fines in the thousands of dollars. What happened here? Who gave our government the right to make certain elements of God’s creation “illegal?” Insanity by any other name is still a pretentious, audacious, arrogant and ignorant self-delusion. When these politicians get to heaven (anything’s possible), will they attempt to arrest God for producing marijuana? Or better yet, perhaps they’ll advise God that their Tylenol, Zoloft, Ritalin, Paxil, Nyquil, and other man-made concoctions are healthy and perfect medicines, free of side effects, while His pure and simple plant is a dangerous “gateway drug.” That is the dictionary definition of delusion. By that same dictionary, America cannot be called the “Land of the Free” while cancer patients waste away, vomiting and aching to death, while the perfect medicine for their pain is banned by insane bureaucrats. If I eat enough tulips out of my garden, I imagine that I could make myself sick – so then why aren’t tulips illegal? If I climb a tree, I might fall out and break my ankle – so why don’t we put restrictions on tree heights? These questions sound silly until we realize that precisely the same twisted logic is what keeps marijuana outlawed today. In countries like Canada, citizens are not thrown in prison based on their proximity to a certain plant. Perhaps Canada is the new “Land of the Free,” where Americans can go on vacation to experience personal freedom in the privacy of their homes. The call of sanity and common sense has been heeded to some degree in states like Alaska and Nevada, where allowances for medicinal marijuana use and general decriminalization of the good-herb has made progress. The honest feeling of this 27-year-old working-class man is that the outlawing of a plant is the true crime against nature and sanity. I can only conclude that the obscure, ultra-rich people that own this country and its government have some financial interest in keeping marijuana off of the pharmacy shelves. In a better world, they would be honest about their big-business motives and stop insulting us with ridiculous propaganda touting pretenses of concern for public well-being. In my opinion, keeping marijuana from cancer patients and other suffering individuals equals inhumanity in the first degree – and that is evil. (The Drug Czar currently spends more than $18 billion annually of taxpayers’ money on prohibition (1999).)Something to think about...