The Pot Bowl: Hawks and Broncs

Super Bowl?

Saturday morning… clear sky… all the news is about the Super Bowl. Some call it the Pot Bowl because Denver and Seattle are open cities for the recreational use of marijuana. I don’t give a crap about the debate around marijuana. I no longer smoke it but I ain’t against other people using it. Those who rant against it as a gateway drug to other addictions are misinformed. The truth is that any drug is a gateway drug. Alcohol, pot, tobacco, prescription pain killers… Jails and prisons are full of folks who got introduced to the criminal culture via the procurement or sales of marijuana… or standing in front of the 7/11 to get someone to by a case of beer or pack of smokes for them.

            The way I see it is that there are those who see any inebriant as a social evil because drugs are a chemical shortcut to bliss. For many this is a knee-jerk reaction to a dislike of anyone obtaining some kind of pleasure that they consider immoral. Using a crutch like “the Children” as an excuse to ban it or for reasons of health… be it mental, spiritual or physical health compels them to legislate against any and everything they oppose. I only have to witness the self-righteous indignation some ex-smokers confront smokers with. Many non-smokers, whether they once smoked or not, want to ban smoking in the confines of one’s home; even out in the open having already banned it on beaches and parks in some areas.

In this country we have the experience of the era of Prohibition that opened a door to the growth of criminal gangs and we can see the results of the War on Drugs and the correlation of that with the gang culture hear and in Mexico. It is my belief that those who directly or indirectly profit the most from prohibition are those who wish to continue it. I believe that the Crips, the Bloods and the Sinaloa Cartel most likely agree with Bill O’Reilly, preachers from the pulpits, and pundits on TV. Yes, keep the War on Drugs going. Don’t even get me started on the subject of how illegal pot farming has ruined our pristine National Forests and so on…

I say: Go Seattle Seahawks… Go Denver Broncos. Smoke it up! It ought to be a great Super Bowl whether anyone smokes a bowl or not. I am one of those annoying people who think the government has no business in our homes, how we defend our homes, our bedrooms, our love-life, or our use of drugs (prescribed or not). The more we give up power and self-determination to the government in any area of our lives the more confined and prohibited our neurosis will explode.

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