{Monday, June 30, 2008}
 The Injustice of Schapelle Corby Bali, Indonesia. Schapelle Corby, a 27-year-old Australian woman, languishes in Kerobokan Prison for a crime she insists she didn't commit. Shapelle had flown to Bali in October 2004 to join her sister Mercedes (married to a Bali man) for a two week vacation at the beach. Among her luggage was an unlocked boogie-board bag. When she arrived in Bali and was asked by customs officials to open the tote, she discovered a ten-pound bag of cannabis flattened next to the board. Though she says she knew nothing about the marijuana, Shapelle was immediately arrested, never imagining the firestorm that would ensue. * HBO is now showing a documentary on the back story. *Related: Help Bring Schapelle Home Family's Website Schapelle's Website Do you think she's guilty or innocent? I'll tell you what I think in the comments. Labels: human rights, marijuana, petition  |
{Monday, December 31, 2007}
 Best of 2007 Weed Reviews Late in 2007 LAist began weed reviews, a sporadic column featuring a different variety of marijuana while presenting it as though it were a wine review, and of those different kinds of pot 3 stood out as superior to the rest. #1 Weed of Los Angeles: Sour Diesel. This pot is a consistent crowd pleaser. We liked it so much we reviewed it twice. Its that kind of stuff that you would smoke even if pot didn't get you high, just for the taste. It's a great strain and comes highly recommended. #2 Weed of Los Angeles: OG Kush OG Kush is the best of all the kush sub-strains. Forget bubba, master, hindu and all the others... OG wins. And its because its the most consistent, most pungent and knocks you off your ass the hardest. OG Kush truly is the original gangster of kushes. #3 Weed of Los Angeles: Trainwreck Our #3 is the most appropriately named of the bunch. You feel it all right in your face, as though you had your block knocked off by a freight train. Makes sense, eh? It is also uniquely pungent, and like OG and Sour-D can be found at your local weed outlet or stoner friend's living room. Honorable Mentions in no particular order go to: Odyssey, Super Silver Haze, Pot of Gold, Afgooey, and Skunk #1. link |
{Sunday, October 08, 2006}
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W E B T R A I L * Marijuana product placement on grocery shelves? link * Visualize that the Holy beings enter your heart chakra or a Dharma wheel in the form of lights before you move anything on the altar. There really is a method to moving your altar. link * A Pima, Arizona, couple has stepped down as leaders of a church that considers marijuana a sacrament and deity. The government contends the church is a front for drug trafficking. link * Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox - A documentary. link * I didn't know Richard Clarke had a website. link * BBQ-ing with Bobby Seale - Yes, that Bobby Seale. link * Help Hastert Hide the Perv and more silliness - link * David Byrne offers up “Record Companies: Who needs Them?” and gives his opinion on the Montreal music this week. link FULL MOON Take some time around this Full Moon to create more balance in your life, in whatever way you feel called. Use the tools you have to stay centered. listen to your heart, and remember: "To go out of our minds at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind you come to your senses! When you come out of the conditioned, limited and unaware mind the center of gravity naturally shifts to the heart." --Alan Watts Labels: Alan_Watts, ayahuasca, counterculture, David_Byrne, documentary, Dr Bronner's, marijuana, music |
{Tuesday, September 26, 2006}
 From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism Deerskin jackets and potter’s wheels, geodesic domes and star charts, instructions on raising bees and on repairing Volkswagens, advice on building furniture and cultivating marijuana: all this can be found here, along with celebrations of communal life and swipes at big government, big business and a technocratic society.  Can this encyclopedia (Last Whole Earth Catalog) of countercultural romance have anything to do with today’s technological world, a world of broadband connections, TCP/IP protocol and the Internet? How could the romantic, utopian culture of the 1960’s, with its deep suspicions about modernity and its machinery, be closely linked to one of the most important technological revolutions of the last hundred years? link login: bozetta password: rednose Labels: marijuana, Stewart Brand |
{Wednesday, August 16, 2006}
 WTF?The Republican Party has a new voter registration project in Fresno. It involves luring people to sign a LEGALIZE MARIJUANA petition and then re-registering them as Republicans. link |
{Friday, August 04, 2006}
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"I'm not too concerned about getting caught," said Eric, a Bellevue man in his early 30s who peddles pot online through craigslist. Local and federal law enforcement officials said they're aware dealers like Eric are turning to craigslist and other Web sites to sell pot, but the amounts sold are generally so small they're not very concerned. Eric, who spoke on the condition that his last name not be used, says he doesn't make much of a profit — if any — but sells enough marijuana so he can smoke for free. He sells small amounts — usually an eighth of an ounce, which brings in $30 to $40. Most clients are friends or friends of friends, Eric said. Pretty ballsy, I'd say and good that they don't pick on them. link Labels: marijuana |
{Monday, March 27, 2006}
 Monday WebTrail The 28rd Annual St. Stupid’s Day Parade takes place this Saturday, April 1st in downtown San Francisco - [via] Jarmusch directs Racounteurs video - Link WeBeHigh.com - Worldwide Marijuana Travel Guide With Marijuana Prices, Spots & Legalization Status. [Where to cop in Asheville] 60s Beyond - Survivors from the 60s and 70s. Busy and intimate Yahoo group that's fun and imformative."There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life." -- Frederico Fellini  Bush: Star spangled bummer. |
{Monday, March 20, 2006}
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Yippie Museum Approved A man named "Kenny the coke freak" once lived in the basement of the three-story brick building at 9 Bleecker St., just off the Bowery. In the early 1970s, when Kenny no longer could pay the rent, the Yippies moved in. More than three decades later, the counterculture group founded by Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin is looking to turn its Bleecker Street headquarters into a museum. The state Office of Cultural Education is recommending that the Board of Regents grant a five-year provisional charter to the Youth International Party - which spearheads an annual march calling for the legalization of marijuana - at its March meeting next week. The Regents are likely to follow the recommendation.  "It's sort of going to be like the Hard Rock Cafe of radical culture," a longtime member of the Yippies, Dana Beal, a co-curator of the museum, said during a tour through the building yesterday. Mr. Beal, (of Cures Not Wars) who has a shock of white hair and a moustache like Mark Twain's, has inhabited 9 Bleecker St. since 1973.The items to be on display will include some of the cremated ashes of acid guru Timothy Leary and an American flag blazer donated by Hoffman's son, Andrew, who lives in Indonesia. [More...] Yippie Museum Approved Labels: Abbie Hoffman, marijuana, radical_ideas, Timothy Leary |
{Saturday, October 15, 2005}
 In 1967 the Beatles were in Abbey Road Studios putting the finishing touches on their album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. At one point Paul McCartney wandered down the corridor and heard what was then a new young band called Pink Floyd working on their hypnotic debut, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. He listened for a moment, then came rushing back. "Hey guys" he reputedly said, "There's a new band in there and they're gonna steal our thunder". With their mix of blues, music hall influences, Lewis Carroll references, and dissonant experimentation, Pink Floyd was one of the key bands of the 1960s psychedelic revolution, a pop culture movement that emerged with American and British rock, before sweeping through film, literature, and the visual arts. The music was largely inspired by hallucinogens, or so-called 'mind-expanding' drugs such as marijuana and LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide), and attempted to recreate drug-induced states through the use of overdriven guitar, amplified feedback, and droning guitar motifs influenced by Eastern music. This psychedelic consciousness was seeded, in the United States, by countercultural gurus such as Timothy Leary, a Harvard University professor who began researching LSD as a tool of self-discovery from 1960, and writer Ken Kesey who with his Merry Pranksters staged Acid Tests - multimedia 'happenings' set to the music of the Warlocks (later the Grateful Dead) and documented by novelist Tom Wolfe in the literary classic The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968) - and traversed the country during the mid-1960s on a kaleidoscope-colored school bus. Suzy Hopkins, formerly *Suzy Creamcheese, a dancer and inspirational figure on the underground scene in Los Angeles and London, remembers the visceral way psychedelic culture affected the senses. 'There's a difference between a drug and a psychedelic. Drugs make you drugged and psychedelics enhance your ability to see the truth or reality' she says. For her, LSD and music created a kind of alchemy. Many psychedelic bands explored this sense of abandonment in their music, moving away from standard rock rhythms and instrumentation. * She's ONE of the Suzy Creamcheesees. MORE Labels: Beatles, drugs, films, Ken Kesey, lsd, marijuana, music, Pink Floyd, psychedelic, Timothy Leary |
{Sunday, June 19, 2005}
 The Yippies began as a group of dedicated political pranksters in the late 1960s; they demonstrated to end the war in Vietnam, they held a Yip-In at Grand Central Station, threw money from the balcony at the greedy brokers on the floor of the NYSE, put on the first marijuana Smoke-In and, with Allen Ginsberg Ommmmmming away, levitated the Pentagon upwards into a beautiful Wahsington DC October afternoon. [more »] Yippie Speakers will keep the Yippie spirit alive with updates on the original pranksters and the appointed (or annointed) new millenium Yippie types. Labels: marijuana |
{Tuesday, December 14, 2004}
Gary Webb, 49, the Pulitzer Prize winning reporter from the San Jose Mercury News made America hold its breath in 1996 when he showed us proof of direct CIA involvement in drug trafficking, was found dead by two gunshot wounds to the head Saturday. more »
 Buy Blue for Christmas. Companies divided according to corporate donations to the Republican Party or the Democratic Party. Do you think Amazon is red-loyal or blue-loyal? What about Starbucks? Go see for yourself.
Christmas Spirit Level 1: The Christmas Spirit at this level is somewhat like smoking marijuana for the very first time. You think that maybe you feel something, but you aren't quite sure. Either way, the holiday fudge tastes extraordinarily good. Kane's Seven Levels Of Christmas Spirit is worth the visit.
Gotta run - I've got some evergreen, a glue gun and 3 cups of espresso under my belt.
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{Wednesday, October 27, 2004}
 View of packs of cigarettes, unveiled by European Health and Consumer Protection Commissioner David Byrne, at a news conference in Brussels, October 22, 2004. Byrne unveiled new violent images for cigarette packs to warn consumers of the health risk of smoking. REUTERS Source (via: Wilson's Almanac)
This should be enough to make us all quit smoking. Gross. "Students, who last month signed a petition that was being circulated on the Blue Bell campus to legalize marijuana for primarily medicinal purposes, are now finding out that they are newly registered Republicans." more »
ETC Everyone's favorite marsupial, skippy the bush kangaroo, pointed me to the VoterGate movie.
Find Your Polling Place
I Promise To Vote
Blog Explosion
Post from yesterday that I'd accidentally left in draft mode. Actually, it was the drummer's fault. Labels: David_Byrne, films, marijuana, petition |
{Monday, June 14, 2004}
 In "Can't Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000," by Martin Torgoff, he refers to his own drug use and abuse throughout the book. Besides using his own story, he fuels the book with a polyphonic spree of supporting characters, among them storied beats Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac; psychedelic superheroes Timothy Leary and Terence McKenna; fallen jazz greats Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie; tragic rock stars Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison; cult figures Ram Dass and Wavy Gravy. The result is a sweeping epic that bounces between orgiastic nostalgia trip and cautionary tale -- and, at times, like the drugs themselves, can assault the senses.
Mixing oral history, autobiography and a large dose of firsthand sources from High Times to Foreign Policy, the book moves across time and culture, starring one drug after another, from marijuana to MDMA. Salon Link; Amazon Link War stories that are worth a look... Labels: books, drugs, Jimi Hendrix, marijuana, psychedelic, Timothy Leary |
{Wednesday, May 26, 2004}
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Honest Bloggers Quiz
1. Which political party do you typically agree with? Democrats. 2. Which political party do you typically vote for? Democrats 3. List the last five presidents that you voted for. Al Gore 2000, Bill Clinton 1996, Bill Clinton 1992, Mike Dukakis 1988, Walter Mondale 1984. 4. Which party do you think is smarter about the economy?Democrats 5. Which party do you think is smarter about domestic affairs? Democrats 6. Do you think we should keep our troops in Iraq or pull them out? Set an agreed upon date, pull out all military and contractors. Give Iraq their country back in full control; not pseudo control. If it runs in the ditch, it's theirs to fix. If it flies, great. 7. Who, or what country, do you think is most responsible for 9/11? We've always been hated and it was almost inevitable, but international relations were worked on diligently to keep us safe. Most helpful? I think Carter and Clinton. Most destructive? Bushes 41 & 43. 8. Do you think we will find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? Let me consult my 8-Ball. It says, "Fat chance, motherfucker." 9. Yes or no, should the U.S. legalize marijuana? Yes. 10. Do you think the Republicans stole the last presidental election? Yes. 11. Do you think Bill Clinton should have been impeached because of what he did with Monica Lewinski? No. 12. Do you think Hillary Clinton would make a good president? I'd have to hear more about her plans. 13. Name a current Democrat who would make a great president: Bill Clinton 14. Name a current Republican who would make a great president. I don't think there is one. 15. Do you think that women should have the right to have an abortion? Yes. 16. What religion are you? Currently a practicing Buddhist. 17. Have you read the Bible all the way through? No. 18. What's your favorite book? Even Cowgirl's Get The Blues, Tom Robbins. 19. Who is your favorite band? Rolling Stones. 20. Who do you think you'll vote for president in the next election? Kerry. 21. What website did you see this on first? Post Human Blues Labels: Al_Gore, books, Buddhism, elections, Iraq, marijuana, Rolling Stones |
{Thursday, March 18, 2004}
 Reefer Madness, The Musical
Casting has been announced for Showtime's small-screen version of the Off-Broadway musical marijuana satire Reefer Madness. The Hollywood Reporter says that Tony Award winner Alan Cumming will join former Producers star Steven Weber, Roulette's Ana Gasteyer and Neve Campbell for the movie musical. Cumming will star as the film's narrator, the Lecturer; Weber will play pot dealer Jack; Campbell will portray Miss Poppy; and Gasteyer will be the hostess of the Reefer Den, Mae. [link] Did anyone see this in school? We saw part of it in the auditorium when I was a freshman in high school and the other students began to stomp their feet and clap their hands and raise so much hell that they just stopped the movie. But this new version may be worth watching. :: It was like one big superstar family, with everybody home for the holidays. If Norman Rockwell had ever painted covers for Rolling Stone, it is what he might have rendered. [link] On this day, March 18, 1970 -- F***?: Country Joe McDonald is convicted for obscenity & find $500 for leading a crowd in his infamous Fish Cheer ("Gimmie an F..!") at a concert in Massachusetts. [via: daily bleed] |
{Monday, January 12, 2004}
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Af-flu-en-za - n. 1. The bloated, sluggish and unfulfilled feeling that results from efforts to keep up with the Joneses. 2. An epidemic of stress, overwork, waste and indebtedness caused by dogged pursuit of the American Dream. 3. An unsustainable addiction to economic growth. 4. A television program that could change your life. (This program has been around since 1997, I believe.) Please seek treatment if you're afflicted.
{blog site of the day} Pigs In Lipstick - Fresh perspectives on political climate expressed with much wit and intelligence. I couldn't get into any Blogspot sites today; will try again this evening {best pix of 2003} - The first picture is a open-mouthed fish with a smaller fish inside his mouth peering out; his fate sealed. [via: inbox; thanx carol] Happy Birthday Candy! Candy from Subtle Breeze is celebrating her birthday today.  Don't abuse marijuana... be gentle and smoke it very carefully. |
{Wednesday, November 05, 2003}
 The lighthearted moments were almost the highlights of the forum of the Democratic opponents last night on CNN's Rock The Vote. They answered the "PCs" or "Macs" question. And, perhaps more interesting, they answered who's smoked weed and who hasn't smoked weed. Oddly enough, all who've inhaled got major applause. Smoking pot is so much a part of the mainstream now that it's practically a non-issue.
Edwards, Dean and Kerry said they had used marijuana in the past. Sharpton, retired Gen. Wesley Clark, Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio said they had not, Kucinich adding that using the drug should be decriminalized. Former Sen. Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois declined to answer. [read transcript]  The rest of the country is beginning to see what we here in North Carolina already know. That Senator John Edwards really does have a pair. He's not afraid to stand up to big business or big politics and is really one of the few that can prove he has the working person's interest at heart by his past reputation. And is you really want to "rile" up a Southerner, just start condescending to us. We're sick of being treated like the US red-headed step-children and stereotyped into gun-toting, Confederate flag waving, Nascar rootin' tootin' buffoons. The redneck species isn't indigenous to the South. If you've traveled the US extensively as I have, you know that species is abundantly populous in every state.
And as Al Sharpeton said, (this guy speaks in terrific sound bites) any one of the candidates would fair better than George Bush. And as I watched them all onstage last night, I realized that several of them really would do well to sit at the top seat in the country. I'm still undecided. I probably know more about John Edwards, since I'm also from North Carolina, and it wouldn't hurt my feelings if he were our Democratic nominee. He doesn't have much experience in politics and that may be a big plus. I've tried to like Howard Dean, but can't stop thinking, "Physician, heal thyself of thy arrogance." Dennis Kucinich also is a good possibility, but two words for ya, Dennis-- "Don't Yell!" and Gephardt is somewhat appealing. John Kerry is almost reminiscent of Clinton with all his charm but went Ted Nugent on us all. And when he speaks, I want to say "Bullshit", "Bullshit". Wes Clark could better serve us all in Don Rumsfeld job, but I still want to hear more from him. Carol Mosely Braun, although quite articulate, could use a firecracker under her ass. Lieberman - too out of touch; lives in a bubble. Al Sharpeton - let's just make him ambassador to France. Labels: marijuana |
{Sunday, August 17, 2003}
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Good morning.
Blogger somehow misplaced my template Friday, so I had to reconstruct another one. ::Pot charge may lead to huge tax bill If a Haywood County man arrested this week is convicted of a marijuana-growing charge, he'll owe North Carolina $130,000 in taxes for the 30 plants. The excise law allows North Carolina to tax people convicted of drug charges based on the amount of drugs linked to them. Well, that just about sucks. ::Man Cuts Off Own Penis to Cure Sex Addiction Police said the man did not want his penis to be reattached but were unable to say if doctors had complied with his wishes. I wonder if he left any heart-broken women behind because of his newfound surgical skills. ::The list of Fair and Balanced Web Sites continue to grow. What you going to do about it, Fox? Blah, Blah, Blah, is keeping score. Over 300 Weblog sites and counting. ::Carry On Together - Neil Young has joined David Crosby's CPR side project on the entertainment lineup for the 2003 Santa Ynez Valley Music Festival, which will take place Sept. 28 in Los Olivos, CA. I'd love to see them altogether again. The first thing I always play when I pick up a 12-string is "Helplessly Hoping". ::Oscar has a fun Anger Hostility Quiz on his site. ::A panel of critics has chosen the 50 worst artists in music history. All these tone-deaf pud pullers that have the gumption to rate musicians really amaze me. ::Voices From The Underground - features old images of issues from the Berkley Barb (Berkley, CA), The Great Speckled Bird (Atlanta, GA), Georgia Straight (Vancouver, BC), and more. Haiku no way I can stop smoking is my only vice that and the whoring Quote For Today Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. ~Oscar Wilde  Stop fucking with my power chor.... Labels: addiction, drugs, marijuana, music, Underground Press |
{Tuesday, May 20, 2003}
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From the 'I Don't Know Jack About Computers' File:
My mouse wheel has stopped turning and I'm a little pissed about it. What would happen if you suddenly lost all your files on your computer? And as much as we all know to save and backup, do you backup? Or do you have another place to store files? Or you just don't give a shit? I stored some photos on Yahoo! a few years ago I wouldn't want to lose. But it sure would suck to find all those files again. Republican Matrix comic by Ward Sutton is good today. 
Saw this lovely spiky bras link at Anne's that would be fun for Halloween for some or even a fun day at the office for some. For you marijuana advocates or afficiendos out there, you can watch POT TV online. The U.S. military is using Metallica and the 'Barney' theme song as instruments of coercion in Iraq against Saddam supporters. Drowning Pool's 'Bodies' and Metallica's 'Enter Sandman' are popular ones used. How can they know there's no metal heads in Iraq? Although it's a safe bet that the Barney Theme song would make you surrender or drop a drachma on someone. [via: rocktober] Quote For Today "Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found,and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration." ~D.H.Lawrence Fond of dead flowers, spiders, nipple rings--- all the usual girlie stuff |
{Sunday, May 04, 2003}
 A top White House drug policy official is threatening retaliation from the U.S. if Canada relaxes its laws against marijuana possession. Stay out of it, US. I feel like I'm riding on this runaway Hellbound Train with "W" as the engineer.
I added the little green fire-escape that Gary Turner made to the right side of the site. Clicking on it will take you to Google. Should I have it redirect someplace else? I always say this site looks best when viewed on company time. *UPDATE* 4:33 pm--For those of you who don't have a way to upload the little green gif, Gary has kindly given permission to use his code and bandwidth for this, if you're interested. It couldn't be any simpler. Go here» Quote For Today The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. ~Anaïs Nin Some say the glass is half empty, some say the glass is half full. I say, are you going to drink that damn thing or not? Labels: marijuana |
{Friday, August 09, 2002}
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Nevada Police Back Legalizing Pot I saw this fine story on Skippy the Bush Kangaroo's site. Nevada's largest police organization has endorsed a state ballot initiative that would let adults legally possess small amounts of marijuana. The board of the Nevada Conference of Police and Sheriffs, a 3,000-member group that represents about 65 percent of the state's street patrol officers, voted 9-0 on Tuesday to support a change in the state constitution that would decriminalize possession of up to three ounces of marijuana. Let's hope this ruling is contagious and that other states soon follow Nevada's lead. For medical reasons or for personal use, I say, why not? [via:guardian.co.uk]  Labels: marijuana |
