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Politicians are a species of humanlike beings who are obsessed with coercing people.
It doesn't seem to matter to these beings how much or how little power they have so long as they can wields it against others.
Bye Bye Bong Say so long to the bong in Big D if fuddy duddy
officialdom gets its way. (detail of Wikimedia commons image)
These were the people you knew growing up. They were the teacher's pets, the hall monitors, the schoolyard bullies.
No matter how easily the word "freedom" glibly slithers off their tongues while speechifying they will never mean it in the real world.
Their primary goal in life is to make the rest of us unhappy.
The Dallas Observer blog Unfair Park reports that the weight-throwing-arounders down at Dallas city hall are going to ban fake weed.
Banning real weed just wasn't enough to placate the politico's passion for power. Real weed, they realized, was doing people harm, like easing their pain from glaucoma and aids or simply making them feel good.
Now they intend to outlaw synthetic marijuana and salvia divinorum.
When smoked with rolling paper or in a bong an herbal incense variously called K2, spice, genie and wicked, yield pot-like effects; hence the term synthetic marijuana.
And salvia is yet another one of nature's leafy flora that causes a person to relax and peace out and forget about acting like the unnatural weight-throwing-around underclasses.
But there's more. The Observer suspects that the next step will be outlawing bongs.
They quote from an ordinance written to prohibit "illegal smoking products and related paraphernalia" that are made from, but not limited to, "metal, wooden, acrylic, glass, stone, plastic, or ceramic pipe" materials.
Libertarians have long pointed out, mostly to no avail, that the unimaginative power drones never get it right. There's this little thing called unintended consequences; people simply change their normal habits to get around the laws rather than lining up to obey them as the power pukes always imagine that they'll do.
So you know what that means, all you potheads, uh, fake weed whackers out there, right? Fake weed requires fake bongs. Keep plenty of those big fat manicotti noodles around for bong use. They may get soggy with slobbering and won't last long as water pipes but guess what – if the SWATs bash down your door you can eat the evidence.
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Comments
This could put a lot of glass artists out of work.
People find a way though - the local shop will just have to stock more booze and erotica.
It's time to legalize and remove the issue all together.
The government represents the will of the people.If you want this to change, you have to become that change and change the laws.
Politicians who refuse can be replaced...
Get busy.
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Right on, Gary! Ronzoni jumbo shells also work well.
This reminds me of when I was in the military.
A very cheap bong, used by crackheads, is to use an empty soda can as a crack pipe. So one day a clever airman (private basically) decided to use a soda can to smoke a cigarette.
He left these cans in various places around base, and the security forces were going crazy trying to find the crack addict. Drug dogs were called, who didn't know what the fuss was about since there was no crack on the soda cans. Drug tests went up as well. We were given briefings on the dangers of drugs.
I don't know if they ever caught the guy - I hope not. It was a cool practical joke.
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