It's going to get really ugly

It's going to get really ugly
DrugWarRant / Pete Guither / 07,26,2010


Thanks to Logan for pointing out this nasty internet ad by the anti-proposition-19 folks:

The ad goes on to read…

As California goes, do does the
rest of the country.​

“do does”? OK, we didn’t say they were literate.

This November, Californian’s [sic] will go to the polls and decide if they want to legalize the use and cultivation of Marijuana. Your state could be next. Bus drivers, forklift operators, hospital technicians, crossing guards who might be stoned could be coming to your community.
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Seems to me that bus drivers, forklift operators, hospital technicians, crossing guards, doctors, teachers, judges, police, and (ironic mothers? — not sure what the image on the left is supposed to represent) should be pretty offended by the implications of this ad and want to support the other side.
On the radio, we have Democrat Michael Rubio, a Kern County supervisor who is running for state senate in Bakersfield. He apparently decided he could get more visibility for his campaign by running radio ads against legalization. (Maybe someone from Bakersfield can explain this.) Listen here.
Of course, he rails against “legalized potheads driving around.” I’m afraid we’re going to hear a lot more about those in the days to come. Facts, of course, won’t matter much from that side of this debate.
Oddly, he starts by calling it “legalizing the — quote — recreational use of marijuana —”
Um, no. It is in fact legalizing the recreational use of marijuana. I’m not sure what the purpose of the “quote” is. I know it was fashionable for prohibitionists to put quotes around the term “medical marijuana” to ridicule the idea that it was really medicine. But is he saying that “recreational marijuana” isn’t… recreational? What is it, work?
When pot is legal, will the following conversation be taking place?

Sarah: “Hey, you want to go to a movie?”
George: “Oh, I wish I could! No, I have to get stoned and drive a car and run over some kids. Hey, it’s a living.”
Update: They’re probably alerted to the mistakes in the ad, so Roger Salazar will be stepping in to clean it up and straighten out the drunks on his staff. When that happens, here’s a pdf of how it originally appeared.

Update 2: The ad has been removed. Currently, I’m getting a “Directory Listing Denied” at that page, and another ad they had aimed at California audiences is also gone.

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There’s something horribly, treasonously wrong in a country of the people, by the people and for the people, where the government functions by lying to the people. Guitherism

 

Maybe it's those new e-cigarettes that you can vape with.

 

I believe she represents a housewife,she looks angry enough to be one,been putting up with a couple of spoilt ass kids all day and she needs to blaze.....bad

Can you imagine what the people are going to think of their government when they blaze the first time and get so bent they can't function,then wake up the next morning,without hugging the commode to hang on? We tokers are already mad at our legislators for creating and supporting this travesty,with no real justification. Lets see how they explain to the whole country that they thought they were doing the right thing even in the face of all the evidence of clinical testing showing possible cancer treatment and blocking