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THE DERANGED WAR

(The Truth About The United States And The Marijuana War)

Say that the war that the United States Government has waged against adults who smoke marijuana has been, and is, emotionally deranged and what reaction do you think you'd get? There can be little doubt that a lot of people would think that you were the one who was deranged for making such a remark. Afterall, "drugs are killing the children," or, "drugs are the scourge of our society," or, "drugs are destroying the fabric of our society," right?

And that's exactly the mentality that the government wants people to default to. Say the word "marijuana" and people should instantly jump to anything that falls into the category of "drug", including dangerous substances like cocaine and heroin. It makes it easier for the government to wage a war against people.

Realistically speaking, however, has the government ever given a realistically valid reason why it believes that an adult should be a criminal for indulging in the use of marijuana in the privacy of the home?

Well, it really doesn't matter. Because no matter what argument the government conjures up to justify the insidious war that it has waged against otherwise hard-working, productive people, it won't even come close to negating the one that I'm going to put forward to support my claim that that war is, has been, and always will be, emotionally deranged.

The reality of the system.

For starters, the marijuana issue could never, ever, ever have been understood without understanding the reality that existed in this country for 200 years, and the effect that that reality had on people's lives.

What do I mean when I say the reality that existed in this country? Before I answer that I want to advise you to pay very close attention. You cannot understand the marijuana issue if you don't understand what I'm about to tell you.

I'll use my own experience to demonstrate what I'm talking about. I was born in 1953, or some 200 years after the beginning of the United States. When I was 5 years old my parents, particularly my father, started to wage all-out, physical and emotional warfare against me. My father, who was six feet tall and weighed over 200 hundred pounds, started to hit me in the head in what was a deliberate attempt to try to beat me mentally retarded. That went on for the next 12 years. The older I got the harder he'd hit me. He'd hit me in the head hard enough to knock me to the ground, pick me up, hit me in the head again hard enough to knock me to the ground, pick me up, hit me in the head again hard enough to knock me to the ground, and again, and again, and again, maybe up to ten times or more.

That's not all. When my father was twenty years old he lost the middle three fingers on his left hand in an industrial accident. That's the hand that he normally hit me with. Because there wasn't any fingers to absorb the shock, the result was the power of a punch without leaving a mark. It was the child abuser's paradise. The child abuser's paradise is the ability to strike the child in the head hard enough to knock him to the ground without there being any noticable marks left behind. You can pound, and pound, all day long without anyone ever knowing what happened.

Unfortunately, a complete discussion of the circumstances of my childhood and the reasons behind them is well beyond the scope of this article. Suffice it to say that from age five through age seventeen there was little that my parents couldn't have done to me, in terms of physical and emotional terror, and that the war that they waged against me lasted the entire duration of that period.

What's equally important to our discussion, however, is the effect that that war had on me. What it did was completely and totally destroy the twelve most important years of my life. I made virtually no intellectual or social progress from age five through age seventeen. When I was seventeen years old I had pretty much the same intellectual and social mentality that I had at age five. It also caused me to grow up with the wrong personality - something that it took me until age 40 to realize. In otherwords, in terms of the true intellectual, social, and athletic potential that I was born with, my life was over long before I ever took my first toke of pot.

So what does all this have to do with the Marijuana issue? Simple. Before you can ascertain the damage, if any, that a given substance did, or does, to a person's life you must first determine what damage is already there. If you don't do that it's 100% certain that you're going to look at Marijuana smokers who were destroyed by the reality of the system and you're going to blame their destruction on the marijuana, instead. You'll probably say something like, "Duh, would you look at what the marijuana did to those people."

And that's exactly and precisely what the government has been doing ever since that day in 1937 when it made the possession and use of marijuana illegal. You don't believe that? Just ask yourself what did the so-called brilliant, college-educated, six-years-of-college wonders of the United States Government know about the reality that existed in this country in 1937? I can tell you what they knew: As much as a one-year-old knows about a computer. Anyone who cares to dispute me will have to explain the reality that came later. I already described what I lived through 20 years later. Furthermore, I can tell you for a fact that there still was little, or no, awareness of the reality that existed in this country even as late as the1950's and 60's. No, there can be absolutely no question that, since the very first day that it made marijuana illegal, the so-called brilliant, college-educated, six-years-of-college government has looked at people who were destroyed by the reality of the system and concluded, "Duh, would you look at what the marijuana did to those people."

The sad thing is it then went out and waged a war against people, made criminals out of them, based on those delirious hallucinations.

Before I continue I need to say that not everyone had parents like mine. There have been many good parents in this country who tried to do what's best for their children.

But you go back before 1970, if a person was born into an abusive situation there was virtually no limit to what he or she could have been subjected to throughout the entire duration of childhood. People were totally at the mercy of the situation that they were born into. And that reality wasn't just a phenomenon of the 40's, 50's, and 60's, either. We can say with absolute certainty that it went all the way back to the beginning of the United States. In fact, we'll never know the horror that some people had to indure over the course of U.S. history.

The ramifications.

What many people don't realize is that that reality had mind-boggling ramifications on the Marijuana issue - almost all of which were completely and totally overlooked. For starters, it made it automatic that some of the people who experienced it would become involved with marijuana. You don't believe that? Just ask yourself what would've happened if someone like Nancy Reagan had experienced the reality of the system the way that it could have been experienced? Anyone believe that there wasn't circumstances that would've resulted in her becoming involved with pot? In actuality, before you could even ask whether Nancy Reagan would've become involved with marijuana you would have to give her the benefit of the doubt that she would have even lived to see her 21st birthday. That's because many of the people who she went around pointing the finger at for smoking pot grew up under circumstances that would've taken her life before she ever seen her 21st birthday.

The fact is, only an ignorant fool would look back at the reality that existed in this country for 200 years and conclude that people could have endured that reality and remained pot free.

I'll use Nancy Reagan to demonstrate another ramification that the reality of the system had on the Marijuana issue. She is what I refer to as a pampered, bowl-of-cherries, Cinderella baby. When she was 7 years old her mother married a wealthy surgeon. She lived in one of the best sections of Chicago and went to the best schools. I suspect, but didn't research it, that her wealthy step dad even paid her way through college. Let me tell you, the easiest thing that it is for pampered, bowl-of-cherries, Cinderella babies like her to do is to stand back and point the finger at those who weren't and say, "do you know that you're messed up 'cause you smoke pot? There's something wrong with you for not being just like me."

As far as I'm concerned, our society is insane when it allows pampered, bowl-of-cherries, Cinderella babies like Nancy Reagan to go around waging a war, for any reason, against people who had to endure circumstances that would've taken her life before she ever reached her 21st birthday, all because they didn't fit her image of upstanding people.

It makes you wonder why, back in the 1980's, the U.S. Congress was in a mad rush to jump aboard the Nancy Reagan bandwagon. Well actually, it doesn't make me wonder, and it didn't make me wonder then, either. Afterall, what is the U.S. Congress, anyway? 535 Nancy Reagan clones, that's what. The fact is, no one who has ever served in the U.S. Congress ever came within a light-year of the reality of the system. How do I know? Because people who do don't make it that far. People who lose the twelve most important years of their life, and who grow up with the wrong personality, and who knows what other problems, have all that they can handle just fending for themselves, let alone running for the U.S. Congress. No, if you take a close look at the members of the U.S. Congress you'll see exactly what I'm talking about. Most, if not all, have academic credentials that strongly suggest pampered, bowl-of-cherries, Cinderella baby childhoods. And that's the way it's always been.

And that brings me to one of the major issues that I have with the marijuana war: From the very beginning it's been a war that's been waged and perpetuated by pampered, bowl-of- cherries, Cinderella babies who never came within a light-year of the reality of the system. And, as I already alluded to, the easiest thing that it is for people who were fortunate enough to have escaped the reality of the system to do is to stand back and point the finger at the ones who weren't and hatefully say, "do you know you're messed up because you smoke pot? There's something wrong with you for not being just like me." And, as I also already alluded to, there can be absolutely no question, zero doubt, that those same hateful, pampered, bowl-of-cherries, Cinderella-baby, finger pointers would've done the same thing under the same circumstances.

In 1988 I coined the term "Citizen Abuse" to characterize what it is when people who had no contact with the reality of the system point the finger at people who did for smoking pot.

The ramifications that the reasons for the reality of the system had on the Marijuana issue.

When people think of the reasons for the horrifying reality that existed in this country since the very beginning they might have a tendency to place all of the blame on the parents. Although there certainly was some responsibility on the part of the parents, in many cases some, if not all, of that responsibility evaporated after, say, the first 15 to 20 years of this country's existence.

You see, there's a quirky thing about child abuse. If it goes on for ten years you can blame the parents. If it goes on for fifteen years you can blame the parents. But when it goes on for 200 years, as it did in the case of the United States, a significant portion of the responsibility shifts squarely onto the government's shoulders. That's because if people aren't raised right they're not going to turn out right. It's my own belief that it's impossible for people who lost the twelve most important years of their life, who grew up with the wrong personality, and who have all that they can handle just to fend for themselves, to be perfect parents. Consequently, once child abuse gets started it's going to perpetuate itself.

So, just exactly what was the government's responsibility for the reality that existed in this country for 200 years? That might depend on what the most basic and fundamental responsibility of government is. In my opinion, the most basic and fundamental responsibility of government is to insure that people can intellectually and socially mature during their most vulnerable, or childhood, period. Even people who disagree with me would have to put it somewhere up there in the top five. Don't waste one second of your time, however, trying to convince me that it isn't at the very top of the list.

Assuming that I'm right, and who wouldn't, what does the reality that existed in this country for 200 years tell us about the United States Government? Let's put it this way, what would you say if I told you that 200 years ago some people got together and decided to start a garbage company? They bought a building and put up a sign that read "Garbage Company." Let's say, however, that these same individuals weren't aware that a garbage company was supposed to collect the garbage. Consequently, none got collected. Garbage piled up everywhere. Not only that, that went on for the next 200 years. In otherwords, no garbage was collected for 200 years. Not only that, aside from not knowing that a garbage company was suppose to collect the garbage, these same people were also blind to the garbage that piled up. In otherwords, when they walked down the street they couldn't see the mountains of garbage that had piled up.

Now, what would you say about such a gross, mind-boggling, incompetent entity? You'd probably say that such a degree of incompetence could only occur in one's imagination. Well, guess again. My fictitional garbage company was a completely and totally accurate characterization of the competence level that the so-called brilliant, college-educated, six-years-of-college United Sates Government exhibited for 200 years.

You see, if we assume that the most basic and fundamental responsibility of government is to insure that people can intellectually and socially mature during their most vulnerable period, there just simply isn't any other conclusion that we can come to. That's because when we look back at the reality that existed during the entire first 200 years of this country what we see is a reality that subjected children to virtually every mistreatment under the sun. We see a reality where, for 200 years, people were totally at the mercy of the situation that they were born into. As I alluded to before, we may never know the circumstances that some people were subjected to over the course of American history. We can only imagine.

Now, I've got news for you, the only way that that mind-boggling, horrifying reality can exist in a society for 200 years is only if the so-called brilliant, college-educated, six-years-of-college wonder of a government has no understanding or comprehension of what it's most basic and fundamental responsibility is. There's no other way that that ridiculous reality can exist that long. It can only happen in a society that has a government that has no understanding or comprehension of what it's most basic and fundamental responsibility is.

Keep in mind, people, we're not just talking about a little incompetence here. What we're talking about is the epitome of gross, mind-boggling, pigheaded-ignorant incompetence. What we're talking about is going 200 years without even having the slightest inkling of what your most basic and fundamental responsibility is. And, as I depicted with my fictitious garbage company, as blind as the government was to what it's most basic and fundamental responsibilities were for 200 years, it was equally as blind to the reality that resulted from that gross, mind-boggling, pigheaded-ignorant incompetence.

So, what's the government's major knock against marijuana? That it ruins a person's life? Well, I've got news for the government, nothing, and I do mean absolutely nothing, did more damage to the lives of more people over the course of American history than the reality that the so-called brilliant, college-educated, six-years-of-college wonders of the United States Government perpetuated.

Furthermore, in view of that reality and the effect that it had on people, it's hard to see where the government gets off waging a war against anyone. To perpetuate a reality for 200 years that clearly destroyed the lives of tens of millions of people and then be in a mad rush to treat a person like a Jew in Nazi Germany because he didn't turn out like Nancy Reagan, well, I mean, it's absolutely insidious. You'd be extremely hard pressed to find an individual, or group of individuals, in this country that did more harm to the lives of more people than the reality that our very own government perpetuated for 200 years.

Future generations need to know the truth. And the truth is that for 200 years the United States Government perpetuated a reality that subjected children to virtually every mistreatment under the sun. It was a reality where, for 200 years, a person was totally at the mercy of the situation that he or she was born into. It was a horrifying reality in which many people were lucky just to make it to adult life. And what makes the Nazi-like campaign that the so-called brilliant, college-educated, six-years-of-college wonders of government have waged against adult marijuana smokers even more insidious is that contact with the reality that the government perpetuated made it automatic that people would become involved with marijuana. As I touched on earlier, only an ignorant fool would look back at the reality that the government perpetuated for 200 years and conclude that a person could've endured that reality and remained pot free. The lives of many of the people that the government has waged it's insidious war against were ruined long before they ever took their first toke of pot.

If the United States Government is going to perpetuate a reality for 200 years that subjected children to virtually every mistreatment under the sun and then turn around and be in a mad rush to treat a person like a Jew in Nazi Germany because he didn't turn out like Nancy Reagan, despite circumstances that made that humanly impossible, then I think it's only fitting that we make certain that future generations know the truth about the United States Government. And that truth is that for nearly 200 years the so-called brilliant, college-educated, six-years-of- college wonders of government literally did not even have the slightest inkling of what their most basic and fundamental responsibility was. The reality that existed in this country for 200 years cannot be explained any other way. It needs to be pointed out for future generations the mentality of the people who have been going around treating a person like a Jew in Nazi Germany becuase he or she didn't turn out like Nancy Reagan. I might not be able to bring about some form of decriminalization of marijuana but I do guarantee one thing: The history books will have to be rewritten. The history books are going to have to record the fact that the United States Government literally existed for 200 years without either having the slightest inkling of what it's most basic and fundamental responsibility was or an awareness of the reality that resulted from that gross, mind-boggling, pigheaded-ignorant incompetence. If they don't record these facts the Unintimidated Press will come out with it's own history books. One way or another, future generations are going to know the truth.

Now consider this. In what has to be the audacity of audacities, the U.S. Government has the audacity to use job performance as a pretext for waging a war against adults who smoke marijuana in the privacy of the home. Think about that. An entity that had a 200 year history of not having the slightest inkling of what it's most basic and fundamental responsibility was, and that perpetuated a reality that destroyed the lives of tens of millions of people, going around using job performance as a pretext for treating people like a Jew in Nazi Germany. That's about as ridiculous, absurd, and outrageous as it would be if the fictitious garbage company that I described went around using job performance to wage a war against people.

Immorally making criminals out of people.

Designating a person as being a criminal must be one of the most serious things that a society can do. It stigmatizes people; it can cost them their life savings and valuable possessions and property, and can essentially ruin their lives. Clearly, it isn't anything that should be done on a whim, or on the basis of hallucination and exaggeration, or by using arguments of convenience. If it is there can be little doubt that it must constitute an emotionally deranged act.

Unfortunately, that's exactly what the government has been doing for many years.

I already explained how the government looked at people who were destroyed by the reality that it perpetuated and then hallucinated that those people were destroyed by marijuana. And how it then went out and waged a war against people, made criminals out of them, based on those delirious hallucinations. Well, that's not all.

For instance, take the "Gateway Drug" hypothesis. You know, the delirious hallucination that marijuana causes it's users to become cocaine and heroin addicts. The United States Government subscribes to it religiously. For example, it was the cornerstone of this nation's first drug czar's overall drug policy and philosophy. I'm referring to William Bennett, who implied publicly on more than one occasion that marijuana was responsible for all of our illicit drug problems. When you consider the tens of millions of people who have smoked marijuana on a regular basis over the years, if there was anything to the "Gateway Drug" theory there can be zero doubt that there would have been an incredible increase in the number of hard drug users in this country.

Pure, utter, and absurd hallucination.

In fact, what makes the "Gateway Drug" argument all the more insidious is that you can make an even stronger argument that marijuana prevented people from getting hooked on hard drugs. When you look back at the reality that existed in this country for 200 years, and the effect that it had on people, there can be no question that the desire to use drugs would've existed whether marijuana had ever existed, or not. That begs the question. What if marijuana hadn't existed? It doesn't take a genius to ascertain that it likely would've resulted in a dramatic increase in the use of harder drugs.

Sometimes hallucinations lead to other hallucinations. For instance, the "Gateway Drug" hallucination has government officials literally walking around delirious with the hallucination that marijuana is killing the children. You don't believe that? Just ask any government official on the state or federal level why the use of marijuana by an adult in the privacy of the home should be against the law and I guarantee that 9 out of 10 will say something like, "because drugs are killing the children."

The government loves to conveniently use the children to justify it's Nazi-like treatment of adults who smoke marijuana. Afterall, who wouldn't argue that kids shouldn't smoke pot? Oh, how convenient. Anytime you want to wage a war against people just find something that they do that children shouldn't do and just cry out, "we have to save the poor, little children."

To give you an example of how easy it is to use children to wage a war against people, we could make it look like the children need to be protected from the United States Government. There's religious fanatics in the U.S. Congress who want to subject the children to religious propaganda. We could object to that and cry out, "We have to save the poor, little children from the religious fanatics of the U.S. Congress."

See how easy it is?

But just because children shouldn't engage in a certain activity it doesn't make it automatic that adults who do should be made criminals out of. Adults engage in a whole range of activities that children shouldn't but we don't make criminals out of them for it. Furthermore, what about the reality of the system? What about the effect that that reality had on people? If contact with the reality of the system made it automatic that people would engage in a certain activity then making criminals out of them for that behavior could constitute an emotionally deranged act. What about the ramifications of making criminals out of people? And just exactly who are the ones who are going around making criminals out of people? For instance, should adults who were pampered, bowl-of- cherries, Cinderella babies, who did the complete and total escape from the reality of the system, who skated through, be allowed to wage a war against people who weren't so fortunate for not only doing the same exact thing that the pampered, bowl-of-cherries, Cinderella babies would've done under the same circumstances, but for something that was also automatic under the circumstances?

Ironically, it's the government itself that's indirectly responsible for a significant portion of the hard drug use amongst children. For years it tried to prevent marijuana from being smuggled into the country. Well, if you're a smuggler and the government is making it hard for you to smuggle the big and bulky marijuana into the country what are you going to do? You're going to switch to the easier to smuggle cocaine and heroin. There can be no doubt that the government's policies resulted in a significant increase in the availability of harder drugs in this country. In fact, you could make a case that it's the government that's killing the children.

Moving on, another hallucination that the government walks around with in it's head is that if you take a toke of marijuana on Sunday you're going to be impaired at work on Monday. Why do you think that, in what has to be an egregious violation of the constitution, it advocates that employers strip search people via the urine to detect prior pot use? I'm referring, of course, to urinalysis screening for marijuana. A test that doesn't detect if a person is under the influence of marijuana, only if he had used it in the recent past.

How do I know it's an absurd hallucination? Because every individual that I've known who smoked pot was a hardworking, productive person who advanced on the job. Not only that, over the course of my adult life I've worked at many different companies. Some had up to 3000 people. Yet, I'm not aware of any accidents or impairment of any kind that occurred during my periods of employment, let alone any that were even remotely related to in-the-home pot use. The only place where you might find any next-day impairment from marijuana use is in a controlled laboratory setting. I know of only one such study, done at Stanford in the 1980's, to find any next-day impairment. And even then, one of the studies own researchers indicated that the results probably weren't realistic in terms of the real world. There were dozens of other studies, perhaps over a hundred, that didn't find any next-day impairment from marijuana use.

Pure, utter, and absurd hallucination.

The fact that the vast majority of adults in this country who smoke marijuana are hardworking, productive people who've advanced in almost every walk of life is hard proof that there's some serious, delirious hallucinating going on.

Conclusion.

People who had a 200 year history of not even knowing what their most basic and fundamental responsibility was, and who hallucinate and exaggerate and then go out and wage a war against people based on those hallucinations and exaggerations, are far worse than anything they're trying to make the pot smokers out to be.

Because making a criminal out of a person is one of the most serious things that a society can do it morally obligates the government to get the facts straight.That includes taking into consideration the reality that it perpetuated for 200 years and the effect that it had on people. It includes looking at the people that it wants to treat like a Jew in Nazi Germany and taking into consideration that the vast majority of those people are hardworking, productive people. It includes taking into consideration just exactly who the people are who are waging the marijuana war - are they pampered, bowl-of-cherries, Cinderella babies who didn't come within a light-year of the reality that the government perpetuated? And it includes not lumping marijuana into the same category as cocaine and heroin.

We need to make it clear to the government, on the state and federal level, that we consider making criminals out of people on a whim; on the basis of hallucination and exaggeration; or by using arguments of convenience, to constitute an emotionally deranged act. And if the government engages in such behavior we're not going to hesitate to hang the "emotionally deranged" moniker around it's neck.

When people think of democracy they have a tendency to think in terms of perfect government. Well, guess again. For instance, if all the people in a given society are emotionally deranged then the government that's elected from that society will also be emotionally deranged. Now, I'm not saying that everyone in the United States is emotionally deranged. But the point is that just because a government is democratically elected it doesn't mean that it's perfect. I think that this is a misconception that people have about democratic governments..

Another misconception that people have about government is that if government officials are college educated they must be the best, right?. They're not ignorant like the rest of us, right? Well, here again, guess again. If I haven't already disintegrated that myth then you should stop here, there would be little point in going on. When you look at the reality that existed in this country for 200 years, and the reasons for it, you'd be hard-pressed to find a more ignorant and incompetent group of people than the ones who perpetuated it.

A rule of thumb that I use is that the more education that a person has the more ignorant that he or she is of reality and life in the United States. The college educated are typically pampered, bowl-of-cherries, Cinderella babies who didn't come within a light-year of the reality of the system. They're permanently, perpetually, absurdly ignorant of what other people lived through and the effect that it had on them - something that was well proven for 200 years. The greater the education level, the greater the escape from reality, the more the ignorant.

You can bet your bottom dollar that when the so-called brilliant, college-educated, six-years-of-college wonders of government made marijuana illegal in the 1930's they had no understanding or comprehension of the reality that they had perpetuated, were perpetuating, and would continue to perpetuate for decades to come.

A government that displayed the history of social ignorance that the United States Government did cannot have any credibility on an issue that's as intertwined with the reality of the system as the marijuana issue is. It's 100 percent humanly impossible. And even worse, ignorance can lead to emotional derangement.

In fact, it's scary when you come to think about it. When you consider the level of ignorance that's been exhibited by presidents and members of congress over the course of U.S. history, and consider the enormous power that these people have in there hands, I mean, it's like putting a loaded gun into the hands of 436 one-year-olds.

For 200 years the so-called brilliant, college-educated, six-years-of-college wonders of the United States Government perpetuated a reality where people were totally at the mercy of the situation that they were born into. Then, after 200 years of doing that, those same six-years-of-college wonders were in a mad rush to treat a person like a Jew in Nazi Germany because he or she didn't turn out like Nancy Reagan.

The marijuana war has been waged and perpetuated by pampered, bowl-of-cherries, Cinderella babies who didn't come within a light-year of the reality of the system. The people in this country who have been going around making marijuana use look like it's something to be ashamed of are people who did the complete and total escape from the reality of the system. They're people who walk around with delirious hallucinations in their head about reality and life.

The marijuana war has been nothing but an emotionally deranged war that the pigheaded- ignorant, pampered, bowl-of-cherries, Cinderella babies have waged against the partially, or totally, destroyed babies. Because they're fortunate enough to escape the reality of the system, the pampered, bowl-of-cherries, Cinderella babies are able to ascend to the reins of power. They can, guided by the delirious hallucinations in their heads, sit back and carve up the partially, or totally, destroyed babies all day long, for doing the same thing that they would've done under the same circumstances. And because the partially, or totally, destroyed babies lost the twelve most important years of their life they're completely and totally defenseless against the deranged onslaught.

Criminalization without representation!

The government can continue to wage it's insidious war against hardworking, productive people but it's not going to be without it's price. One casualty will be the government's credibility. From here on out, every time the government opens it's mouth about anything the American public will be aware that it's listening to an entity that's capable of such gross, mind- boggling, pigheaded-ignorant incompetence as going 200 years without even having the slightest inkling of what it's most basic and fundamental responsibility is. The reality that it perpetuated for 200 years can't be explained any other way. I challenge anyone to dispute that.

That price is also going to include our insuring that the history books are rewritten to accommodate the truth. If the government perpetuates the reality that it did for 200 years and then is in a mad rush to treat a person like a Jew in Nazi Germany because he or she didn't turn out like Nancy Reagan then I think it's only appropriate that the history books record the truth about the government, and cast that truth down throughout all of remaining human history.

One way or another, future generations are going to know the truth. They're going to know that the marijuana war was waged and perpetuated by an entity that literally had a 200 year history of not even having the slightest inkling of what it's most basic and fundamental responsibility was. They're going to know that the so-called brilliant, college- educated, six-years-of-college, wonder of a government was so gross, mind-boggling, pigheaded-ignorant, incompetent that for 200 years it perpetuated a reality where people were totally at the mercy of the situation that they were born into. They're going to know that for 200 years the government completely and totally shirked it's most basic and fundamental responsibility and then had the audacity to use job performance as a reason to treat a person like a Jew in Nazi Germany because he or she didn't turn out like Nancy Reagan.

Future generations are going to know that from the very outset the marijuana war has been waged and perpetuated by people who didn't come within a light-year of the reality of the system - people who had the pristine-like Nancy Reagan experiences. Future generations are going to know that those same people knew as much about the reality that existed in this country, and the effect it had on people, as a one-year-old knows about a computer. They're going to know that the people who waged the war didn't have the intellectual capacity to look at people and ascertain what effect the reality of the system had on those people's lives prior to them becoming marijuana smokers. Future generations are going to know that for 200 years the people who waged the marijuana war not only perpetuated a reality that destroyed people's lives long before they ever took their first toke of marijuana, they also hallucinated that those people were destroyed by the marijuana. And they're also going to know that the people who waged the marijuana war perpetuated a reality that made it automatic that people would become involved with marijuana.

At the minimum, I call on the government to decriminalize the use of marijuana for anyone born before 1970. During the decade of the great Marijuana War, the 1980's - and maybe even still today, the vast majority of the marijuana smokers in this country grew up in the 1940's, 50's, and 60's. We know that that period was one of mind-boggling, horrifying child abuse. In terms of its physical and emotional severity, it might've even been unprecedented in the entire history of the United States.

In fact, if you want a perfect example of the gross, mind-boggling, pigheaded ignorance that's been exhibited by our so-called brilliant, college-educated, six-years-of-college leaders all you need to do is go back to the 1988 presidential election. All of the candidates wanted to come across as being tough on pot. They literally tried to outdo each other trying to dream up new ways to wage a war against people. In otherwords, we had just come through one of the most horrifying periods in the history of the reality of our society, the 40's, 50's, and 60's, and all those buffoons could do is try to think of new ways to make criminals out of people.

It should be pointed out that the actions that the ignorant buffoons of the 1980's took to wage war against people, including the trampling of people's rights, are still in effect today, and maybe forever.

I call on the government to compensate anyone who's ever been convicted of a marijuana related offense - something that I was doing years before the recent decriminalization campaign in Alaska started to do so. Many of the marijuana dealers in this country were just small time operators who weren't trying to get rich but were just trying to make ends meet. There's reason to believe that many experienced childhood circumstances that made it impossible for them to make the necessary intellectual and social progress during childhood that's required to achieve the kind of success that the pampered, bowl-of-cherries, Cinderella babies of the U.S. Congress were able to achieve.

Hate starts with the United States Government. Make no mistake about it, the campaign that the government has waged against adults who indulge in the use of marijuana is a campaign of hatred. However, I for one believe that when all of the facts relating to the marijuana issue are understood, there might just come a day when our government is mentioned in the same sentence with the German government of the 1930's and 40's - with the DEA being the Gestapo. I know that I'll be doing everything within my power to bring about that outcome.