Heads Up, Hippies
Get a load of this ….
AUSTIN — In a surprise move that supporters hailed as a historic victory, the Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee approved legislation Wednesday to make it legal to buy and sell marijuana in the state. Two Republicans joined with the panel’s three Democrats in support, giving House Bill 2165 a decisive 5-2 victory.
It will now proceed to the full House where it will be stomped on, preached over, dragged down to the river and baptized, and lassoed and hogtied before the Republican House members go home and get stoned in the privacy of their own Austin hotel room.
Careful there, Texas Cons, Mr. Snappypants and Hannah & Joseph Basel are on the loose in Austin!
1It would certainly be a boost for Doritos sales in the state, so it’s good for business.
2I think it is time for mandatory drug testing for Texas politicians at all levels. If they are going to take government funds, they need to prove they aren’t on drugs.
3Miz Juanita, I love your flowery prose!
Mark, first they have to breathalize them as booze is the number one choice for most of them. Or are you too young to have heard about them clearing out the saloons and whorehouses downtown to get a quorum on the floor to vote? And why would they need government funds when they have the PACs?
4Perhaps marijuana use should be required for the Texas House while they are in session. They sure need something.
5Once this passes, Free the Marijuana Prisoners! I’ll found a super-PAC. My compensation will be $1 per annum and 50 cases of nacho cheese Doritos. And….
@Rhea
6Orangey fingers do contribute to probable cause!
Texas, I love you Texas for the very real “incoming” directed toward the GOP Clown Car. Everyone talks about the blue, pink, purple and swing states. But without Texas, that plagiarist “hippie” in his phony dry cleaned jeans, Ran Paul hits a major iceberg. Carly Shoulda Been Flipping Burgers, has 30,000 or more icebergs awaiting her bow. Ben doesn’t know he’s black Carson doesn’t need to worry about icebergs; he can expect an icepick in the back from the GOP.
Pardon my early morning schadenfreude, but it does tickle the heart and please the brain that the panderers will be taken out by those to whom they pander. I love irony!
Pot in Texas? Really!?! Even I know the drug of choice for rednecks is meth amphetamines. The TRex lege is so lame.
7A number of things wrong with legal drugs….
81-If the user has a cage (social system) that confines and abuses him, then the abuse of the drug is certain.
2-Making drugs legal means the crooked politicians/lawyers/cops wont be able to make the sums they are now making.
3-ANd worse yet….the dimwits on the religious right will have a harder time controlling what you do and that you wont follow their way of doing it.
So legal drugs or any sort will piss off a lot of people.
Willie Nelson for Governor!
9Have you ever wondered why they don’t do drug testing on politicians?
I mean, they’re easier to work with than rats and rhesus monkeys, and you don’t develop any emotional ties…
10If it’s good for Willie it’s good for Texas.
11Don’t you see that associating marijuana with hippies makes it easier for the pols to say no. When they finally recognize that many, many just folks regularly toke up (and don’t go crazy), they might also realize that they’re saying no to their voters, neighbors and, dare I say, kids. Change their perspective and they’ll change their minds.
12GeneB – I think my tongue was firmly planted in my check on that one.
13TalG, great idea! Save a rabbit and test make-up on politicians, too. They’re already slathered.
There needs to be a “you first, Alphonse law,” so that any politician proposing an asinine law is first to feel its effect. Less food? Cool, eat less Huckajesus, just, you first. Science denial for the “I’m not a scientist” politicians? Let them be the first to be sponges at a barrier after oil spills, or probes in a toxic fracking well or engineers on a tar sand bomb train.
Deportation? Oh yeah, let them be first. Right Marco and Raphael?
14Ya know, it would be a big cash crop…and they could tax it…I’m just saying…
15Does legalizing pot mean the Repugs will do even less? Maybe that is a good thing.
16Imagine Louis Gohmert after a joint or two.
17TalG – I dunno, I think I’d rather deal with the monkeys and the rats.
What is the difference between a monkey and a Republican?
—One screws anything it can find, the other only screws the poor.
—Republicans don’t believe they have a common evolutionary ancestor with monkeys. Monkeys believe it, but don’t like to talk about it.
—Monkeys fling poo when they get agitated. Republicans fling poo for no reason at all.
—One chatters, shrieks, leaps about, picks nits and inspects others’ genitalia. The other doesn’t have a religion.
What is the difference between a rat and a Republican?
—One is a synonym for untrustworthy, the other is a rat.
18—One deserts sinking ships, the other is a rat.
—One has historically been a plague on mankind, the other is a rat.
—One is infested with blood-sucking parasites called fleas, the other is infested with blood-sucking parasites called the Tea Party.
Maybe the Rs will be smarter and more compassionate?
19daChipster owns the discussion with: “—One chatters, shrieks, leaps about, picks nits and inspects others’ genitalia. The other doesn’t have a religion” among so many of his awesome observations.
Corinne Sabo, didn’t Dubya smoke, while his allegedly “smart” brother dealt pot? Feel free to bake those Republican boys some brownies, but the “compassionate conservative” meme was during my introduction period to politics. It would require more than asbestos mitts for this boy to get anywhere close to an oven, if Republicans are involved. “R” stands for raping and defiling without a kiss. Twice burned, still learning….
20Pardon my paranoia, but it sounds like a good way to get the “liberal hippies” to stop caring so much about the republican shenanigans. Nothing like a happy, compliant voting pool. Sort of a state-wide ruffie so we won’t remember what happened on election days.
21Not that long ago I had to assure someone that weed did not have the power to impact the user like LSD, that it was a kind of “mellower” of one’s anxieties. Like so many people, she had heard about LSD tripping and simply thought all street drugs were like that. She was actually disappointed. Well, that’s her problem. If the TX leg does do a joint or two now and then, they may be more pliable, maybe even that woman who hates Muslims so much just might get over herself. Peace out!
22Wyatt Earl … you had me at “Imagine Louis Gohmert after a joint or two.” Yes, indeed … just imagine!! He might actually make some sense totally stoned!!
23I’m eagerly awaiting the tax cut bill for Marijuana entrepreneurs coming out of the appropriate house committee.
24Sorry guys, the only way the Lege is gonna let you burn any MaryJane is while playing BlackJack at the Casino in Lubbock.
25@Wyatt Earl: I dunno, it’s hard to imagine Louie Gohmert any stupider than he already is. I’m pretty sure we’d have to water him three times a week, and then somebody would probably pick and smoke him.
26Marcia in CO, the idea of Louie stoned reminds me of a statement George I (or II) made about his son-in-law for whom our Prince Georges County MD was named: “I’ve seen him drunk and I’ve seen him sober, and either way there’s nothing there.” (He also said, “He doesn’t have asthma– he just breathes that way so people don’t take him out and bury him.”)
27LOL @ Rhea …
28Probably no chance of this being legalized. For profit prisons will cease to exist.
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