Common sense
I could explain what a simple search on Bing, Google, or any
search engine about this issue would attain but come on people, information in
information out, this could go on for days. With the never ending points of
law, social impact, crime, clinical research extra, extra, extra.
We all want proof, we all want to make the right decisions; We
want to be a steward to our own beliefs, form the safety of our children, to
the benefit of our communities. We don’t want to make mistakes.
When I was growing up, going to school back in the day when
phones were still attached to the wall. We would go to beer parties, from
football season, through the year to Baseball, at these parties were the few
who tried marijuana, some liked it some did not. But they were there, these few.
The pictures the in news was about Hippies running around loosing their clothing
complaining the Government was unfair about war, sex and drugs, That women were
equal to and should receive equal pay and to have access to equal opportunities,
and could wear want they wanted! That it does not matter what sex you are, nor
who you choose to kiss.
It was the thing to do, to try to do something right, we
considered social wrongs, and did something about them. We wore cool T-shirts
like the big smiley which today is still used as a icon and short text, J
. We came up with cool sayings like “Keep on Truckin.”. We bought into the Bicentennial of our
country were words like Liberty,
the Constitution, were openly discussed. We spoke about our rights, discussed
and proudly displayed these.
But there were these few, they didn’t die, didn’t get lost
for days ( ok I did by choice), that became successful, were and are
responsible. That raised and are raising outstand kids, We didn’t turn into monsters.
However we neglected again the minorities and the poor, by
allowing unfounded laws to be passed. This is the travesty of these laws. To
kill a production of an item as an industry, to persecute and jail out of unsubstantiated
fear; To allow the war on drugs to be used as a way to control the cartels, and
organized criminals which were created by this very fear again as it did in the
Prohibition Alcohol. To use miss
information to justify mass media fear. Thus controlling the population. WTF.
Our Senators and Representatives are setting there
complaining about the cost of government and how we need to cut spending and raise
taxes, to pay for what? More of this neglect? More of this abuse?
Why is this not on the table to discuss? The saving of
reducing tax expenditures; reducing the national debit, reducing crime,
protecting the disadvantaged, educating our children, releasing form the bounds
and chains an industry that could produce “green jobs” .
It is a Liberty to drink; a Liberty to smoke tobacco;
A Liberty; a choice to govern ourselves, to Steward our communities, but we
should at all costs be critical of that governing body. When we perceive a terrible
wrong, a miss use of both power and infringement, we are Responsible to enact a
change.
Our founding Fathers would Freak!
I may not spell correctly, nor may I have gone to school to completion,
however I have a right, a responsibility to point out common sense.
Chas Della Silva
