I overslept today.
I admit it.
My allergies are haywire, and the old body just gave out last night into this morning, and I slept way past the time I normally wake up.
My left eye is bothering me today, tearing all over the place, and I am blowing my nose so much that it is ready to fall off.
That is what happens when the weather is so haywire, going from 89 to 40 and everything in between just over the course of a week or 10 days or so.
And then we have the wind and the rain, which isn’t helping me very much.
I know that the next two days are going to supposedly be fairly decent days, in the 50s, with some raindrops mixed in, but on Friday, the temperature is going down to the low 40s—and it just happens to be the day that I get my second vaccine shot.
The first time, we had to wait on a line outside to get inside, and at least that day was a nice one … it doesn’t look like this Friday will be that great.
As I have said, I’m not afraid of getting the shot at all—I am more afraid of everything surrounding my getting of that shot.
Let’s see what happens.
Maybe I need recreational pot to make me feel better.
On second thought, maybe not.
As you probably know, New York State just passed a bill that makes recreational marijuana use legal, and to that, I say bah!
This is nothing but a money grab, everyone knows it, but few will actually say it out loud.
People will now, within time, be able to buy marijuana, grow the plants in their homes, and basically use it when they want to use it.
People are likening it to our use of alcohol, but it is so different that that comparison really is a bogus one.
First of all, if you drink, you are imbibing the alcohol yourself.
No one else is getting any of the drink into them but you.
When you smoke pot, or when you smoke tobacco, there is second hand smoke, and if you are with people who are imbibing, then you are going to get it too.
And I don’t want it, not with my allergies, and that goes for marijuana and tobacco.
If it makes you feel better with your ills, get yourself medical marijuana, which is dispensed and regulated.
Also, for a society that says “follow the science” when we are talking about the coronavirus, it is funny—no, make that sad—that we are not doing the same with pot.
We still don’t know about the long-term effects of pot usage, although we do know that there ARE affects, including loss of brain cells, much like alcohol.
I admit it.
My allergies are haywire, and the old body just gave out last night into this morning, and I slept way past the time I normally wake up.
My left eye is bothering me today, tearing all over the place, and I am blowing my nose so much that it is ready to fall off.
That is what happens when the weather is so haywire, going from 89 to 40 and everything in between just over the course of a week or 10 days or so.
And then we have the wind and the rain, which isn’t helping me very much.
I know that the next two days are going to supposedly be fairly decent days, in the 50s, with some raindrops mixed in, but on Friday, the temperature is going down to the low 40s—and it just happens to be the day that I get my second vaccine shot.
The first time, we had to wait on a line outside to get inside, and at least that day was a nice one … it doesn’t look like this Friday will be that great.
As I have said, I’m not afraid of getting the shot at all—I am more afraid of everything surrounding my getting of that shot.
Let’s see what happens.
Maybe I need recreational pot to make me feel better.
On second thought, maybe not.
As you probably know, New York State just passed a bill that makes recreational marijuana use legal, and to that, I say bah!
This is nothing but a money grab, everyone knows it, but few will actually say it out loud.
People will now, within time, be able to buy marijuana, grow the plants in their homes, and basically use it when they want to use it.
People are likening it to our use of alcohol, but it is so different that that comparison really is a bogus one.
First of all, if you drink, you are imbibing the alcohol yourself.
No one else is getting any of the drink into them but you.
When you smoke pot, or when you smoke tobacco, there is second hand smoke, and if you are with people who are imbibing, then you are going to get it too.
And I don’t want it, not with my allergies, and that goes for marijuana and tobacco.
If it makes you feel better with your ills, get yourself medical marijuana, which is dispensed and regulated.
Also, for a society that says “follow the science” when we are talking about the coronavirus, it is funny—no, make that sad—that we are not doing the same with pot.
We still don’t know about the long-term effects of pot usage, although we do know that there ARE affects, including loss of brain cells, much like alcohol.
Heck, the Biden Administration even recognizes that, having recently relieved several members of the team from their responsibilities because of long-term pot use.
And we are putting the cart before the horse when we decriminalize marijuana before devising accurate tests to be used for drivers who are impaired.
We have accurate tests for drivers who get behind the wheel after they drink, but we do not yet have accurate tests related to smoking pot and getting behind the wheel.
We have been assured that they are being worked on right now, and that they are coming, but so is Christmas, as they say, and what’s the use of decriminalizing a drug if you can’t fully recognize it while testing drivers for DUI?
Look, New York State—and the country in general—is in the midst of not only a pandemic, but an opioid crisis that is killing people on a daily basis.
In my neck of the woods alone, opioid use is at an accelerated pace, especially among our youth, who don’t understand the dangers of using these drugs, drugs that are usually prescribed by doctors but which can be obtained on the black market.
Remember, a while back, I told you about my own doctor—my GP, who actually gave me my allergy shots each month--who was thrown in jail for dispensing opioids to kids around the corner of his office in our high school here.
Do you really think that this is the time to add another drug to the list of something that can be abused by kids—and you just know that kids are going to get hold of the pot, as they get hold of cigarettes and alcohol and the painkillers, too, and abuse them.
When we are fighting the scourge of opioid addiction, is this the time to make legal another drug to abuse?
There are so many other reasons to not make recreational marijuana use legal, but for it to happen in New York State really demonstrates the double talk we have been fed in the state for decades.
New York State was one of the first states to ban cigarette and tobacco use in certain situations, and the way it has promoted its anti-smoking campaign has been applauded by many, and irked others.
It has used TV commercials to tell us the dangers of smoking, commercials that have shown the very insides of people who smoke, the voice boxes that they have had to use to replace the ones that are cancerous, and the people who are hooked up to devices so that they can breath. We have even seen in these commercials people who have lost their limbs through smoking.
And now recreational marijuana use is legal, so aren’t we going against what this ad campaign has told us for years, that smoking is dangerous to your health?
As I said earlier, this is nothing but a money grab, and nothing else.
Every state that has legalized the drug has seen an increase in auto accidents, and we will certainly see it here.
We will see more people get addicted to drugs in general, because marijuana has always been thought of as a gateway drug to worse things, including heroin. You don’t start out using heroin, you start with pot and work your way to something harder.
And we are putting the cart before the horse when we decriminalize marijuana before devising accurate tests to be used for drivers who are impaired.
We have accurate tests for drivers who get behind the wheel after they drink, but we do not yet have accurate tests related to smoking pot and getting behind the wheel.
We have been assured that they are being worked on right now, and that they are coming, but so is Christmas, as they say, and what’s the use of decriminalizing a drug if you can’t fully recognize it while testing drivers for DUI?
Look, New York State—and the country in general—is in the midst of not only a pandemic, but an opioid crisis that is killing people on a daily basis.
In my neck of the woods alone, opioid use is at an accelerated pace, especially among our youth, who don’t understand the dangers of using these drugs, drugs that are usually prescribed by doctors but which can be obtained on the black market.
Remember, a while back, I told you about my own doctor—my GP, who actually gave me my allergy shots each month--who was thrown in jail for dispensing opioids to kids around the corner of his office in our high school here.
Do you really think that this is the time to add another drug to the list of something that can be abused by kids—and you just know that kids are going to get hold of the pot, as they get hold of cigarettes and alcohol and the painkillers, too, and abuse them.
When we are fighting the scourge of opioid addiction, is this the time to make legal another drug to abuse?
There are so many other reasons to not make recreational marijuana use legal, but for it to happen in New York State really demonstrates the double talk we have been fed in the state for decades.
New York State was one of the first states to ban cigarette and tobacco use in certain situations, and the way it has promoted its anti-smoking campaign has been applauded by many, and irked others.
It has used TV commercials to tell us the dangers of smoking, commercials that have shown the very insides of people who smoke, the voice boxes that they have had to use to replace the ones that are cancerous, and the people who are hooked up to devices so that they can breath. We have even seen in these commercials people who have lost their limbs through smoking.
And now recreational marijuana use is legal, so aren’t we going against what this ad campaign has told us for years, that smoking is dangerous to your health?
As I said earlier, this is nothing but a money grab, and nothing else.
Every state that has legalized the drug has seen an increase in auto accidents, and we will certainly see it here.
We will see more people get addicted to drugs in general, because marijuana has always been thought of as a gateway drug to worse things, including heroin. You don’t start out using heroin, you start with pot and work your way to something harder.
And as for the argument that by decriminalizing the drug, we are making amends to certain communities which have been "targeted" by law enforcement for its drug use ... please, don't get me started.
Maybe there is a solid, valid reason these communities have been "targeted," as they say, for drug use and other infractions that go against the law?
But what do I know?
One poll after another suggests that New York State citizens want marijuana use legalized, with many polls saying that two-thirds of the state’s citizens want it to be legal.
But what do I know?
One poll after another suggests that New York State citizens want marijuana use legalized, with many polls saying that two-thirds of the state’s citizens want it to be legal.
I have no doubt that the majority of people will use pot in a responsible way, but those are the people we do not have to worry about.
But remember, once the cat is out of the bag, it will never go back in again, and with all the regulations that our legislators promise to watch over the drug once it is legal, you just know that just about every one of these regulations will end up being circumvented by enterprising pot smokers and others looking to make an even bigger buck.
For instance, you can only grow three pot plants in your home … please explain to me how this is going to be regulated?
So that cat IS out of the bag now, and no, I am not for it at all.
And I don’t look forward to “smelling that smell,” no way, no how.
The whole thing stinks.
But remember, once the cat is out of the bag, it will never go back in again, and with all the regulations that our legislators promise to watch over the drug once it is legal, you just know that just about every one of these regulations will end up being circumvented by enterprising pot smokers and others looking to make an even bigger buck.
For instance, you can only grow three pot plants in your home … please explain to me how this is going to be regulated?
So that cat IS out of the bag now, and no, I am not for it at all.
And I don’t look forward to “smelling that smell,” no way, no how.
The whole thing stinks.
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