TANGENT SUNSET

COMMON CREEPS by Alex Cosper

How do you feel about legalization of medical marijuana? (6/22/05)

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GW BULLSH: Well, I tried it back in the sixties and seventies, but I was more into acid and cocaine, so personally, my buddies on the bench can make it as illegal as they want. I support states' rights, but not when it comes to liberal causes - only when it comes to issues that favor the Confederacy.
RECEPTIONIST: I've never done drugs so I guess I don't care. Who needs drugs, when you got television? Plus you can be completely wired on caffeine all day - without the fear of being arrested. Cigarettes are okay as well, since they're legal. I'm down to two packs a day, so I don't consider myself as hooked as I used to be. Besides, I'm exactly what corporate America is looking for - someone who is heavily influenced by advertising.
UNKNOWN SKEPTIC: Here we have a government that would rather turn its back on cancer patients who are relieved by cannabis, and push cancer-causing drugs put out by the pharmacuedical companies. They say they are pro-life, but evidence points more to pro-death. Perhaps they are savages that enjoy human suffering. Or maybe they're on drugs themselves.
CANDY: Hooray for the Supreme Court. They always make the right decision. Obviously, marijuana is frightening and evil and only used by outlaws who do crazy bad things. It's dangerous because it makes people jump out of windows and kill people. That's why they made the movie Reefer Madness, to warn people of the dangers.
MR. BIG BIZ: I think the decision by the Supreme Court to block medical marijuana was sound and necessary. We can't let this country go to hell the way it did in the sixties, so we need to keep all street drugs illegal. The legalization of an organic drug that people can grow in their own yards would severely cut into the profits of several industries, particularly the pharmaceudical companies.
JENNIFER: The Supreme Court needs to go back and read the Constitution and then ask themselves, why was this document written on hemp? Could it be that the Constitution itself is unconstitutional?
SKULL MADISON: The Supreme Court is correct in their decision that the feds can prosecute potheads regardless of state laws. We still need to round up the rest of the hippies left over from the sixties and put them into a giant concentration camp. That'll teach them to cry for peace in the middle of a war.
WORKER JOE: Oh, man, all this time I thought pot was legal. So what happened? Did they suddenly make it illegal again?
FATHER SULLIVAN: Hard drugs like marijuana are a gateway to harder drugs like heroin. We must guard against plants that grow in the devil's garden. Jesus turned water into wine, not marijuana, so let's stick with the Lord's guidance on this issue. For those who do succumb to the serpent's ploy, there is a window of time in which our heavenly father will grant forgiveness. There's still time...before Armageddon.
COLLEGE STUDENT: Did you know pot was made illegal in the 1930s and before that hemp was emerging as one of the leading crops in America? That's because an acre of hemp produces more useful products than an entire forest or factory. Hemp was an economic threat to corporations, so they made it illegal. The irony is no one's ever died from pot, but plenty of people have died from the garbage they replaced it with.
BRUTUS JONES: I can't believe there are people in this country that will argue we need to expand the drug scene. When I see dope addicts hanging out in my neighborhood, I reach for my gun. You can't blame me, because dope addicts carry guns and it's the dope that makes them fire off random rounds at innocent people. Had the Supreme Court gone the other way, I would have been forced to take the law into my own hands.
CHUMPY SMITH: The reason I'm an alcoholic is because weed is illegal. I don't hang out in places where you can buy it, so it's just easier to buy booze up until 2 in the morning. Their biggest argument for keeping dope illegal is that it's a gateway to harder drugs. A third of America has tried pot. Does that mean a third of America has tried heroin?











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