Toxic Sludge & the Environment, and Pot

Pollution Hits Home for Midwest
So by now we’re all familiar with the Flooding in the Midwest, right? As if the flooding wasn’t bad enough, now they’re contending with the insult to injury that is the toxic sludge that the waters left them with.

Personally, I think it’s a rather sad commentary on what we’re doing to our environment. Think about it: All the stuff that now coats these people’s homes, the smelly, toxic, poisonous mess that keeps them from being able to come back to their homes, is everything that we put back into our world around us. E.Coli? Large amounts of E.Coli? Yeah that’s the poop bacteria, I like to call it. That washed in from all the sewage plants around you. Literally, your home is covered in sh!t. Motor Oil & Diesel fuel? You know where that came from, right?

I really just wish that people would take opportunities like these to really examine the machine that is our consumer culture. Is this how we want to live? Is this the world we want to leave behind? Because in all reality, that wasteland is our future, the prize we leave to the generations to follow. Yeah, perhaps right now it’s all out-of-sight-out-of-mind, but that’s only temporary, as we see now. There’s simply too many people putting out too much waste for the world to adequately compensate and manage.

Let’s say we actually start to recognize and talk about the issues, rather than ignore or take the “well there’s nothing I can do about it” stance; because there is something you can do – you can recognize the issues, and talk about them, and instigate change with just that.



Busting up the Pot Growers in Humboldt County
They’re charging in and bringing down large grow operations around these parts, and of course the talk on the progressive radio stations centers around “how can they do that” and the ubiquitous “they’re going to destroy the local economy.” Yeah f*cking right. I mean, maybe in the short-term, but realistically? Not really. I mean, if these people actually put as much effort into something else besides pot growing, the local economy would probably do much better.

What a cop-out.



Having said that
I do agree that pot should be legal. I don’t smoke nor do I plan to start, but it’s much less dangerous a drug than, say, alcohol or even Cigarettes. Maybe not cigarettes, but definitely Alcohol. They have a point, it does have good medicinal uses, and even if you don’t use it for that, you’re better off than drinking yourself to death, no?



But the rich whiteman grows tobacco still
… which is why cigarettes are legal, and pot is not. Can’t have that sort of competition, you know? Sad, but unfortunately true.

Damn whitey.

Peace.