I have been doing more thinking about the article in the local paper about the 4:20 meeting of the local chapter of NORML/Americans For Safe Access recounted at Cannabis talk here will lighten up sooner or later.
The newspaper article galled me because I think that it perpetuates stoner stereotypes in its subtext. A stereotype that way back in the dark ages was used for blacks. The happy darkies at play. And now the happy stoners at play. In this case there was a reversal of the stereotype – the darkies/stoners are not happy.
What was the meeting about? The persecution of stoners and endocannabinoids/medical marijuana. Very serious subjects. No wonder the darkies were not happy. Maybe they don’t like being the Jews of America any more that the Jews of Europe liked it in the 1933 to 1945 period. It is true we don’t resort to mass murder of stoners. But we do have mass persecution and mass incarceration.
The reporter’s injunction at the end of the piece “it will be time sooner or later for marijuana supporters in Rockford to lighten up, man” is so out of place. And not only that, I haven’t heard stoners talk like that for at least 20 years. Evidently the reporter met a few of the darkies in her college years and has avoided contact ever since.
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How dare you call it what it is: mass persecution and mass incarceration.
We have a four hundred thousand-strong army of occupation with their own armored corps, secret police, informer’s network and disinformation service. They tell us it’s to protect the homeland. They tell us security requires zero tolerance, which is exactly how Goebbels put it.
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