When Bob Dylan said, “Everybody must get stoned,” who knew it would lead to a national holiday, after a few kids at San Rafael High School started meeting after school at 4:20 p.m.
When I first “got stoned” while on a college visit to Washington & Lee University in 1973, I had a feeling of finally getting something I never knew my body and nervous system had been needing.
A few puffs of an Indica bud has brought a sense of mental and physiological calm conducive to a productive work day, and lucid performance of intellectual and creative tasks.
Regardless of the benefits, Cannabis has ALWAYS been a political issue, ever since the evil FBI Director Harry Anslinger criminalized the herb.
Ronald & Nancy Reagan resumed Anslinger’s unholy crusade during Raegan’s presidency, destroying the “culture of trust” cultivated in American society around cannabis throughout the 1970’s.
Sharing a joint with a new neighbor was a great way to break the ice and form a friendship, until that meant risking everything you owned being seized by government agents, and having all of those assets used to further militarize local police departments.
There are all kinds of delivery systems these days, including highly concentrated liquids, but I’m old fashioned.
This was strengthened by a ballot initiative passed in 1974 to place the code violation into the City Charter, and prevent the issue from becoming a political third rail for future politicians.That was prescient, as some city council Republicans promoted a ballot initiative in April 1983 to remove the $5 fine from the city charter.
He was born in the ’50s, came of age in the ’60s, thrived in the ’70’s, barely survived the ’80’s and regrouped in the ’90’s.” He holds a B.A.