Marijuana Culture and Politics - Bluntly
Record number of marijuana arrests in 2006.
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Of those charged with marijuana violations, approximately 89 percent, 738,915 Americans were charged with possession only.
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2004 771,608
Wow, if it was not for me it would have been 771,607…whoooaaa maaannn…
Common sense here people…
Recently Nick Diaz (who I mentioned in my last entry) was on Sherdog radio stoned out of his mind, and presenting the case for marijuana. Diaz is not the most educated or articulate guy out there, but he makes strong points most of us will agree with, and if you saw his last fight who are 99% of prohibitionists to talk gaga about this man? I mean Christ on the cross he got his orbital bone broken and still pulled a gogo. Anyway here is the link to the radio program…
http://www.sherdog.com/news/radio.asp?id=308
Or if you do not want to listen to it here is a link to a thread featuring some of the best quotes (though to really appreciate the greatness one needs to hear all of what he says, and how he says it)…
http://www.sherdog.net/forums/showthread.php?t=639346&highlight=master+diaz
A couple of choice picks…
For the record, right now, I think someone needed to come out and say it: I think smoking pot is good for mixed martial artists. It’s a new day and age, this is, uh, the year … Fuck year is it? I don’t know, because I’ve been training and smoking pot like I should, instead of paying attention to other bullshit, which I don’t do.
Making weed illegal is a little bit paranoid, don’t you think? It’s like saying God made a mistake, you know what I mean? It’s like, you’ve got the whole world and Earth and all its holy creations, right? And God is like, “Hmm, lookit, my whole world in all its holy ways,” and he’s like, “Oh-my-me-oh-shit, I left weed in here. Yeah right, I left weed in here. Oh, shouldn’t have smoked that joint on the third day.”
Like, what the fuck? You think he forgot? I mean, just looking at it from a religious point of view or something like that. Oh fuck, now he’s gotta create Republicans, right, or something or whatnot. I don’t know, I’m just irritated that I get suspended and that put a dent in my career because I want to smoke some weed.
The fact of the matter is, if you go home — okay, I’m gonna tell all you fighters out there something right now, from my experience — if you have friends that you get high with, get ‘em to train with you.
Because you get high all the time, you can’t find people that train all the time. But if you get high and train, you will get high and train all the time together and it will be fucking massive-takeover-smoke-weed-and-kill-people shit.
Let the fucking massive-takeover-smoke-weed-and-kill-people shit movement begin.
Ok, this is not exactly breaking news but as some of you might be aware I am a HUGE MMA fan and will look for any excuse to write about the sport. Anyway below is a fight from Febuary of this year between Nick Diaz, and Takanori Gomi who at the time (and through BS after, but more on that later) was the consensus number one lightweight in MMA. Any who here is the fight…
EDIT: Ok I can’t seem to get Dailymotion vids to work in here (Admin if you’d help my noob ass out I’d appreciate it) so here is the link
http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/diaz%2C+gomi/video/x2n2ko_gomi-vs-nick-diaz_sport
Anyway here’s the retarded part: Diaz (the winner) tested positive after the fight for marijuana and the victory was overturned to a no contest, and Diaz was suspended by six months by the Nevada State Athletic Commission! Aghhhh! In all fairness I can understand why the NSAC has marijuana as a banned substance, as dumb as it is it is an illegal drug, but Jesus Christ just make it some $500 dollar fine and/or three to four month (the amount of time fighters usually take between fights anyway) suspension, don’t just go and MAKE ONE OF THE BEST FIGHTS EVER A NO CONTEST!
Diaz is also quite comical as evidenced by this interview below after the fight…enjoy…
“Ha do gen fucking punch,” LOL.