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"Pot-For-Poverty": Bastion Of Liberalism Unveils Free Marijuana For The Poor
Aldous Huxley would be doing the "told-you-so-dance" as control of the population (particularly the non-elites) has reached levels only he could have dreamed of. In the latest government plan, hot on the heels of "cash-for-clunkers" and minimum wage hikes, Berkeley - that bastion of California liberalism - has unveiled what can only be described as a "Pot-for-the-poor" scheme. As LA Times reports, under a new ordinance, at least 2% of the marijuana each dispensary doles out needs to be given free to members who have “very low” incomes (under $32,000). So not only is work punished in America, but not working now has 'benefits'... it's only fair.
Medical marijuana dispensaries in Berkeley must give some of their pot free of charge to low-income patients under an ordinance approved by the City Council.
At least 2% of the marijuana each dispensary doles out needs to be given free to dispensary members who have “very low” incomes and are Berkeley residents, the ordinance, approved Tuesday, says.
The ordinance also stipulates that free pot must be the same quality, on average, as the pot that other members buy.
According to NBC Bay Area, the City Council has defined very low income as $32,000 a year for one person and $46,000 a year for a family of four.
Berkeley had three permitted dispensaries as of early 2012, according to the ordinance.
The reason for this...
“It’s sort of a cruel thing that when you are really ill and you do have a serious illness... it can be hard to work, it can be hard to maintain a job and when that happens, your finances suffer and then you can’t buy the medicine you need,” said Sean Luce with the Berkeley Patients Group.
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It appears, having realized that cracking the nut of inequality is impossible given the vested corporate interests, that the government will resort to numbing the poor comfortably into not caring... and on the bright side, late-night sales of snack food may surge... so it's positive for GDP too...
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Berkeley is an awful place, as all "sanctuary" cities are. The main business streets are overrun with whack jobs, drunks, dopers, all wanting something from you. How many illegals are there now? Let me count the ways. Of course things could be worse, you could be in Oakland.
The comments on this piece read like a nursing home bitch session. Young people want to live free instead of the diciplined old days where we did as we were told. Young people are stupid, drugs are bad, we're still relevant.
These fucking dickbags. Fuck them.
Next week from the Berkeley city council: prostitutes will be required to provide 2% of their services for free to the homeless and indigent.
The Devil is Dope and out of control....
You just watch-before the 0bamao regime leaves office they'll legalize pot on the federal level.
Beware of the Man with the candy in his hand, his bright colored pills are poison.
Anybody ever see the video of the person who suffers from muscular dystropy, can hardly speak a word without stuttering to the extent that the words spoken are unintelligible, complete gibberish, then after smoking some cannabis, becomes able to speak words and is then quite coherent?
Anyone?
Anyone read the study conducted by the University of Virginia to determine the efficacy of cannabis on known carcinogens, the research done on mice infected with known lung cancer viruses revealed that cannabis does shrink tumors?
Did not some elderly care workers stop administering drugs to old people after discovering that giving them some cannabis, their health improved?
Isn't that how the medical marijuana movement, in part, began in California? Compassionate use for terminally ill patients another?
Let's raise tolerances and keep an open mind instead of listening to more bullshit propaganda.
.."Let's raise tolerances and keep an open mind instead of listening to more bullshit propaganda".
What? and let the facts distort our long held personal biases?- not on my watch mr! (best John Wayne accent)
I spent my adult life watching California prisons grow exponentially from the seventies til today, most of the growth is directly attributable to the self inflicted wound our nation has suffered commonly referred to as the war on drugs.
What wisdom and foresight was required to take a nation with a very small, localized problem and spread it equally across the nation and as a bonus, inspiring the development of new even more dangerous drugs.
But the real diabolical genius was the process of preforming a coup on the national self respect of many South America countries and Mexico through the enabling and enriching of drug cartels.
I never heard of a decapitation or mass graves all the times I used to go to Baja in the sixties..
Why this program was so strategically well thought out and implemented one might believe the CIA might have been involved in some minor way- but that's just silly talk.
The amazing thing in my way of thinking is in tandem with the war on poverty it's hard to believe it took this long to bring the nation to it's knees.
I'll add one to your list, muleskinner. Marijuana is great for chemotherapy treatment. An uncle of mine has had testicular cancer on and off for a long time now. He was always doped up on percodan, vicodin, and finally, became an oxycontin addict. Later, he tried marijuana after a particularly excruciating round of chemo. Now, he's off all painkillers because he can manage pain with marijuana.
I'm sure all the ol' coots here must hate stories like that. Gets in the way of their "marijuana is for dope fiends only" narrative. Strangely enough, my uncle hated marijuana too... until he learned what marijuana actually is and what it's actually capable of doing. Sorry Nancy Reagan, "just say no" went the way of the dinosaurs, and now the only relevant question is when exactly you all are going to catch up and get on the same page with the rest of us.
Snoochy boochies, plebes!!!!
The problem many are having with this is what I am having with it ... the Mill Valley/Bezerkely/Oakland Hills set wants everyone eating out of their hand. They see 'the people' as more or less a petting zoo. They are able to tolerate say an afternoon passing out cheese at the local charity; then its back to the hills for them.
They want everyone eating out of their hand.
I hate them like my chickens hated me ... flat-eyed objective hatred ... to me they are a natural enemy as bad as a brown recluse spider.
I have a card and I loves me the cornucopia of what is available ... I enjoy waltzing into egzactly 420 in my khakis and white shirt and ordering something for the next flight. Better than Dramamine and a six pack, for sure.
The current run of Cannabis actually does have a tendency to not so much instill as to force up fear - at least in me. It takes me a few minutes to work through it, every time. The high brings light on what's dirty inside and I get afraid of it. A purifying process.
Radical M you are right on it and I like your line of discussion.
Consider the different way brick is treated to locally grown.
A proper grow philosophy will eliminate most if not all the undesirable side effects of paranoia and feelings of anxiety.
http://www.clear-uk.org/the-importance-of-matured-cannabis/
this article might shed some light on the issue.
I used to be a prohibitionist myself.
As that article stated: "it is a high order plant which has complexities which are often not properly understood nor respected"
Yes! There is LOTS of variety in possible cannabis chemistry, so much so that one could hardly learn it all in a lifetime!
The beatnik drug addicted hippies are in full force tonight.
Weren't you the assholes that thought Obamacare was free? Doped up liberal scumbags..
..Narcotics police are an enormous, corrupt international bureaucracy ... and now fund a coterie of researchers who provide them with 'scientific support' ... fanatics who distort the legitimate research of others. ... The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help, and suckering well-intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents."
-- William F. Buckley,
Commentary in The National Review, April 29, 1983, p. 495
Guess he was way wrong eh?
Not sure who you're talking to, because I'm not liberal. Does it disturb you to know there are people who vote republican who want to legalize marijuana, and think the rest of the republican party is shooting itself in the foot for not coming to terms with what REAL "small government" would actually look like?
I find it ironic that many people here are citing Brave New World as evidence for what they perceive to be an attempt by the federal government to dope up the masses into submission.
First, let's just ignore the fact that the federal government has been and will continue to be fighting AGAINST the legalization of marijuana, not for it. So, this whole idea of "it's a big government conspiracy to dope everyone up" is pretty fucking stupid just for that reason alone.
Second, Aldous Huxley was an avid user of psychoactive drugs. Not only wirting dystopian fiction, Huxley also wrote Island, a book that describes a utopian vision of society in which psychedelic drug use is openly encouraged and practiced, as is group living (as opposed to "family living"), and free access to contraception is provided.
Marijuana isn't being used to "pacify" the population, folks. In fact, the government has actively campaigned against marijuana for such a long time now because they KNOW marijuana use tends to increase political and social consciousness.
Don't any of you find it curious that more and more people are rejecting MSM values in a time during which marijuana is becoming more freely available than ever before? Don't you find it curious that people are resisting efforts at top-down regulatory control, opting for distributed, localized self-governance instead? Wake up, folks! I'm afraid all the Budweiser-guzzlers out there are the actual brainwashees -- the victims of a cruel experiment to control and manipulate the masses by pumping them full of cheap liquor and cancer-causing cigarettes. I'm afraid you are the brainwashed ones, and it's coming high time for you to awaken. So wake up! Wake up, sleepyheads, your government has been lying to you about how "good" your Vioxx is and how "bad" your marijuana is!
I find it difficult to accept a lawless financial system, yet you want to push pot down my throat. This is becoming increasingly similar according to your homosexual lifestyle agenda push. You folks are on a short period in existence. Be forewarned.
Who's "pushing marijuana down your throat?" No one is doing that. You're the one trying to ban people from growing a harmless plant that grows in virtually any climate -- or, what I'm sure you refer to as "small government."
You have a scary mindset bro, who is forcing what on whom?
I think you are one of those who has so long forgotten what the issue was.
Many today finding they are losing the argument realize all they have left is a misdirected rage forcing them to continue attacking from a position of comfortable lies..
There are two separate issues here and you seem to confuse them- when in doubt I always side with personal liberty.
My brother was killed by a drunk driver, I have had family members destroyed by alcohol but I never once thought a failed notion like prohibition would benefit any of them.
Nancy Reagan God rest her misdirected soul, would be proud of your effort.
I find it curious that people will rally around freedom issues like smoking dope, while our economy is being devastated and our right to privacy and to our own property is being lost. As I lost the appetite for drugs decades back, I fail to see its relevance. Fighting over the right to get high seems a little trivial? with all else we face. Shiny tokens in my view, but again, I'm not against it...just think its dumb.
For all those folks out there that have real medical needs, I'm all for you....but we know that's not really what we are talking about here, right? We are talking about getting high.
Dear lord, Oldwood. If you're for it, then you're for it. Is it as big as some other issues in high finance, politics, economics, etc? No. Still, that doesn't mean we can't have a discussion about it and advocate one way or another. And the policies implemented on state and federal levels have enough of an effect to merit that discussion. It's obviously important to people on both "sides" of the issue.
So Huxley had a vision about 1960s hippy communes? How prophetic!
Teach a man to roll a joint, he gets buzzed for a day. Teach a man to grow some bud, he does 5 to 10 in Hell House. Hypocrisy, America's growth industry!
Debase our currency
hollow out the middle class
punish work and save,
build up welfare paracites
buy off control of political parties, the media, congress.
---all going as planned.
Pit one group of debt slaves against the other using irrelevant, phantom issues..
..check- ahead of schedule.
"If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution-then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise."
ALDOUS HUXLEY
"Two thousand pharmacologists and bio-chemists were subsidized. Six years later it was being produced commercially. The perfect drug. Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant. All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects. Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or a mythology. Stability was practically assured."
ALDOUS HUXLEY ( Brave New World )
"Rational and kindly behavior tends to produce good results and these results remain good even when the behavior which produced them was itself produced by a pill."
ALDOUS HUXLEY ( Brave New World Revisited, in Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience, New York, 1977, p. 99 )
Wait, what happened to the AFFORDABLE health care act???
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