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....as an American Pothead it is my right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness - My life as a stoner, the liberty to enjoy my life in this fashion, and the pursuit of happiness to enjoy smoking without having the fear of Federal Agents busting the door down just for smoking a bud or having a few plants for personal, recreational, medicinal or pleasurable use.....
~ Joe the Stoner


Sunday, April 12, 2009

LETTER TO WASHINGTON from Joe the Stoner


Dear Mr. President, Vice President and Congress:

This letter is addressed to ALL of YOU, whether you are Republican, Democrat, Independent, Conservative, Liberal, Socialist, Communist, Fascist or whatever your ideology may be. Your "Party" doesn't make the slightest difference here.

Forgive me for being blunt, but do any of you have the courage to end America's dependence on ALL OIL, both foreign and domestic, and convert all our automobiles to run on hemp fuel?

Do any of you have the foresight to create millions of American jobs in the Hemp Industry, a clean, green and renewable source of energy?

Do any of you have the bravery to legalize something that has already been banned for way too long at the cost of millions of American lives in the ever-losing Drug War?

How much money is the government spending to fight marijuana and how many Americans will you jail for something that you cannot possibly ever control unless you legalize it?

Do you even realize that Cannabis IS the "Green Energy" of the FUTURE?

Did you know that this could be accomplished in less than a year!

Imagine, America could be FREE FROM FOREIGN OIL DEPENDENCE IN LESS THAN A YEAR!

Did you even know that Cannabis Hemp amd Marijuana have so many other uses? Clothing, Plastics, Rope, Paper, Health benefits, in some people even CURES CANCER, it is a natural alternative medicine to so many damaging prescription drugs, etc..... and oh yeah, lets not forget that the marijuana plant's "bud" can get you high.

Millions of Americans smoke marijuana. You CANNOT and MORALLY SHOULD NOT jail such a huge portion of the population of our own country in such a foolish manner. It is a waste of valuable resources. These millions of Americans that we currently jail are taken away from being productive to society, their families and communities, all because they chose to get high, whether for recreational, medicinal or emotional purposes.

Please do not let history repeat itself. During the Great Depression, America went into an even deeper slump because of Prohibition. Prohibition in the early 20th Century nearly destroyed America. Do not let America's Prohibition of Marijuana destroy our nation.

It's a fact of life: America Smokes Pot and LOTS OF IT!!!

Keep an open mind and envision the inevitable fact that marijuana, cannabis, and hemp are what is destined to save humankind and our planet.

America needs to lead in developing this renewable energy source before we fall behind the rest of the world as slowly all nations will open their eyes to the things they can do with this miracle plant, cannabis.

The potential to once again become the "World's Leading Economy" is in your hands. America needs to push aside the old myths about marijuana that got a nation so paranoid about it, we outlawed hemp - We made it illegal and banned an industry that today has the potential to create millions of jobs, billions in exports, and trillions in taxes and related revenues.

Mr. President, Vice President and Congress - PLEASE SAVE AMERICA - PLEASE LEGALIZE AND LET THE STATES REGULATE CANNABIS, HEMP & MARIJUANA.

OPEN YOUR EYES AMERICA - DEMAND A CHANGE SO DRASTIC THAT IT COULD SAVE THE WORLD AND END DEPENDENCY ON OIL TODAY!

PLEASE, FOR THE SAKE OF OUR CHILDRENS FUTURE AND OUR NATION'S SURVIVAL......END PROHIBITION NOW.

Joe the Stoner

(NOTE: In the original letter, the word "balls" was replaced with courage, foresight and bravery - funny how a male appendage can be associated with words that describe our founding fathers - courage, foresight and bravery = balls)

4 comments:

  1. Joe:

    You have a LOT OF GOOD POINTS...problem is, you present them in such an angry way that no one in Washington, DC will listen to you. Trust me, it is still something I wrestle with, as I am not know for my patience, nor for being overly diplomatic.

    I find I do best if I write my NASTY LETTER, then use a highliter pen to pull out all the GOOD POINTS I made in said letter...I then write uup a cleansed ready for mass consumption letter.

    Would love seeing this letter repackaged as you have some great points...IE, hemp fuel. Obama has said he wants ALL ENERGY OPTIONS on the table...let him prove he is a man of his word.

    Jailing pot smokers....a basic fact to consider. Every Illegal Aliens has broken at least four laws, two of them felonies, yet they walk free, we have Congress talking about a blanket Amnesty...seems to me, there is a very viable angle to take advantage of here.

    The whole pot thing is wrapped up on 70 years of PROPAGANDA doing its best to portray it as a GATEWAY Drug, as an evil demon out to ruin our children's lives...in short, we have to change public perceptions of pot...a person with cancer who is using pot to deal with their life (and maybe death) situation makes a much better poster child for Legalization than say I would...picture General George Custer in a Dead T Shirt, and you know what I look like.

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  2. The "government" doesn't care that hemp is the next fuel. They don't care that you can get two to three harvests per year of it and that it's seeds and oil are extremely healthy and are used as staple crops in some parts of the world. The government doesn't care that THC has been proven to inhibit and reverse tumor growth nor do they care that Harvard did a study that proved marijuana reduced the risk of lung cancer by 50%. They don't care that the fibers of hemp can be used to make clothing, shoes, assessories, etc and can be used to make plastics and automobile parts. Nope, the government doesn't care that alcohol related deaths, tobacco related deaths, and obesity related deaths account for over 50% of the deaths in American every year and marijuana accounts for hmmm... NONE. The government doesn't care...yet. You see, behind all of this, someone is profitting, someone is making money, and it's the government and the multi-billionaires who sponsor our House, Senate, and President elects. What would happen if everyone grew their own fruits, vegetables, nuts, and animals? What would happen if everyone grew their own hemp for biofuel? What would happen if everyone had rainwater storage devices and water purification systems. What would happen if everyone had solar panels and windmills on their roofs or even better yet, used manpower? If these were the cases, the government and it's billionaire backers would make zero money and have zero power in the world. But unfortunately none of those are the case so the more pressing question is, why is marijuana illegal? The answer is simple. If marijuana were legal, everyone would realize that life isn't about working 40 or 50 hours a week at a job you hate to pay bills and taxes you don't owe. Life is about family, friends, leisure, enjoyment, and relaxation. I don't have the numbers but I'm sure that if marijuana were legal, our Gross Domestic Product would drop like a lead weight. Lower GDP means less income tax means less money for the government and those who own America and eventually the world. Anyway, that is my $.02 and sorry, I had a little to get off my chest as well haha.

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  3. Oh and by the way, once the government finds out how to make money off of marijuana, it will be legalized in a heartbeat.

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  4. A sales tax would do it.

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