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I probably first smoked weed when I was 12 or 13 years old, but I didn't like it at the time. I didn't become a weed smoker until I was in my twenties. I believe pot should be legalized because it's harmless and people need it. The number one killer in North America is pharmaceutical drugs, and marijuana has longevity without any of the negative, long term side effects. Booze will kill ya, cigarettes will kill ya, pharmaceutical drugs will kill ya-weed won't. It may make you a little slow on the draw, but I really feel that prohibition of marijuana is the epitome of a million social injustices that happen everyday.
In my mind, if pot were legalized, this would just trickle down into fixing environmental and social issues as well. I'm not just a weed activist, it just happens to be the post I man the best. You can't be an animal activist and an environmental activist and so on, and be effective and be all those things. So, I just happen to live well in the weed department. And I like weed; I'm a huge advocate for marijuana.
I wear other hats as well. About 14 years ago, I started selling watermelon on Wreck Beach, which is a world-famous nude beach in Vancouver, Canada. I had been going down there for about a year or so with a friend of mine, who was an 80-year-old Irish bootlegger. He asked me to help him sell t-shirts. But I found it rather difficult to sell t-shirts to naked people. To make a long story short, I partied and slept on Wreck Beach one night and woke up really hung over and in need of some water, and there were no vendors anywhere.
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I met watermelon girl a few
By luyen, April 5, 2007 at 18:57I met watermelon girl a few years back, albeit very briefly while working for the CBC/ ZED. We did a live broadcast from our studio/office, and she was there... at the time i had no idea who she was, and I think it's kind of crazy that a "normal" person like her should became notorious for something that really isn't a big deal.
Personally i haven't touched pot in a long time (since the CBC coincidentally), it just doesn't help me where i need to go - but it's pretty obvious that everything can be useful in the right amounts, and the right time...
Of all the drugs out there, this one takes a LOT of abuse before i'd say it's seriously harmful, unlike alcohol even, not to even mention any hardcore drugs.
The saddest part about marijuana is that because it's illegal, there's a huge criminal element to it - there are so many houses in vancouver that grow pot for financial reasons, or other reasons.
But if you get involved in growing pot, some criminal organization will be at your door asking for a cut, and with those gangs invariably comes violence -
Maybe it's a societal problem, the motivation is always money money money - but pot is just like any other thing. You can equally argue that violence on TV, pornography on the internet, stress in the workplace are all just as dangerous and harmful over a long period of time... you can even get philosophical and say well, what a person's anger, or attachment, or jealousy? Don't these arise before any other external problems?
It seems we're always looking in the wrong places for our problems, and marijuana has a big bulls-eye on it!
I have a feeling Watermelon
By Heather Wallace, April 6, 2007 at 19:27I have a feeling Watermelon is notorious as much for being herself as she is for selling pot cookies.
Heather Wallace
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Delightful! "My secret
By Hazel8500, July 6, 2007 at 05:55Delightful!
"My secret ingredient is that I love my work."
It shows!
I have long suspected the deliciousness factor rises exponentially with the love put into the process (of baking)
Hazel.
Re: Watermelon's Bust
By Gordman, April 25, 2008 at 10:45I don't understand why is weed that good? Does it really worth the effort of doing drugs? I don't want to accept drugs as if they were a regular thing, drugs are not common items, they are dangerous items we should start focusing on that. My brother is in a drug rehab clinic as we speak, he started smoking weed too.