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Legalize Marijuana Nationwide, Tax It and Free All the Cannabis Prisoners. A Dramatic Savings of Government Spending CURRENTLY WASTED On Law Enforcement and Incarceration and a MASSIVE INCREASE IN VOLUNTARY TAXES! Everybody Wins! We Could Use the Extra Money to Pay for Education and Healthcare for All.

If you don't smoke you wouldn't pay a cent. It's a Win-Win situation. More money going into the Treasury and Less going out. In addition, states that have legal medical marijuana have fewer deaths due to opioid addiction. Some people simply choose the safer drug... DUH...

Please Contact Your President, Senators and Representative and ask Them To STOP THE CRAZY!

https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

Peace and Love:

Not Just a Good Idea but

a Practical Way of Life...

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Link to My Music Video: Free All the Cannabis Prisoners...
https://youtu.be/7Z7C0t31hww

Who could Possibly be in Favor of keeping Cannabis Illegal?
Corporations that are in the business of incarceration.

Law Enforcement makes money by arresting people, then warehousing them in jail. While ACTUAL crime is on the wane, cannabis arrests are easy and low risk. REAL criminals are often dangerous. Cannabis Criminals are Often Stoned... and easygoing...

and... all these people depend on Prohibition for their Paycheck...

Judges, lawyers, police, bail bondsmen, prison guards, construction workers that build prisons, social workers that talk to the families left behind, involuntary rehab clinics, fertilizer salesman, grow-light salesman, realtors that rent abandoned houses to be used as farms... There is a huge industry that will have sales reduced if Marijuana is legalized...

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Criminals depend on Marijuana being Illegal to Protect their Profits. With Legal Marijuana, the Mexican Mafia would be in deep trouble... Are they bribing Senators and Congressmen? We do not know because that money is in cash and not traceable...

Here is a little Psychedelic Art Show... Feel free to Pirate any Image...

Free Clipart for you to use in your own Potatoshop Creations

Photographs of Chico, California - In the Central Valley of California – 100 Miles North of Sacramento. Nestled near the Foothills of Mount Lassen. Famous for Swimming in Chico Creek and Big Al’s Drive in Restaurant… https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/07/07/photographs-of-chico-california/

Butterfly Freedom

A 3D Yin Yang floating over a Rainbow Spiral of Flowers

Student Drummers encased in Glowing Eggs of Power

Like in the Carlos Castaneda Books

Did you ever read the Bible Story of Ezekiel's Ride on an Alien Spaceship?

Magic Mushroom rendered in WINPLOT and Potatoshop

Anonymous Mask. Why not be different? Make your own and become a Nom Nom Nom Mouse instead. Here's How.

A mask can be constructed from a recycled cardboard box.
Use a bandanna folded in half to form a triangle so you may wet it and cover the mouth and nose for filtering air pollution (tear gas).

"Think for Yourself and Question Authority" - Quotations of Timothy Leary

Fracking causes water pollution and health danger for people. Split Estate is a great movie documentary. It shows the dirty side of hydraulic fracturing and natural gas, an energy source the industry touts as a clean alternative to fossil fuels.

http://splitestate.com/

EPA chief pushing government wide effort to question climate change science. As if we could just talk away global warming... The Trump administration is debating whether to launch a government wide effort to question the science of climate change, an effort that critics say is an attempt to undermine the long-established consensus human activity is fueling the Earth’s rising temperatures...

Impeach Trump protests nationwide. It's time for GenX and Millennials to run for public office. Save us Jenna Marbles! We the people have had enough of this buffoon. What is needed is some leadership from young people. The Baby Boom Generation has ruled long enough. It's time for us to retire and enjoy some free time.

My Story - 'Blue Cheese Gone Bad' - Penicillium roqueforti - (fiction- not one word is true)...

Prolog: In the beginning, Doggod created the Heavenz and the Dirt. Later, he/she/it would create Blue Cheese... I've always wondered about The First Guy to eat Blue Cheese... It Looks and Smells Poisonous but it's actually really Good! That First Guy had Courage or bad eyesight... or maybe he was just REALLY Hungry.

Disclaimer: No, I did not Google the keywords "untraceable poison" at the Public Library using the sign in name "John Smith". You would have to ask Mr. Smith about that.

~~~~~ Clues! ~~~~~

The murder weapon was a kitchen knife that was recently used to cut Blue Cheese. The yeast that makes the cheese blue has a Unique DNA and the poLice were able trace it to the specific company that grew it. Extremely expensive, the cheese was sold at Trendy Yuppie Shops that deliver... and know where you live... and are coming to get you... nyah ha ha ha ha

~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chapter Zero ~~~~~~~~~~

Read More:
http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/04/murder-mystery-backstory-etc-blue.html

Artshow - eye candy - feel free to pirate any image - Greg Vanderlaan

Psychedelic ART by gvan42 Gregory Vanderlaan - fun! Feel Free to Copy and Paste into Your Own Potatoshop Creations!

Ezekiels's Wheel

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A Side Effect of Joe Biden's 1994 Crime Bill That Caused Mass Incarceration of Black Men is... Eugenics... Genocide... REALLY!

Millions of Incarcerated Black Men Did Not Father Children. Causing a Great Whitening of The Population as Black Genes Were Locked UP.

Women Selected White Men to Father Their Children BY DEFAULT. This is an Example of GENOCIDE... Years ago it was Called Eugenics... Whatever... White Genes were passed on to the Next Generation While Black Genes Were Prevented... Is This really that different from Mass Castration?

Eugenics: the study of how to arrange reproduction within a human population to increase the occurrence of heritable characteristics regarded as desirable. Developed largely by Francis Galton as a method of improving the human race, it fell into disfavor only after the perversion of its doctrines by the Nazis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics

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and on a Different Subject: Class War

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a Letter to the Editor in Chico, CA

Partisan jabs convolute the debate?!? Politicians, bureaucrats, the ruling elite, petite bourgeoisie and professional-managerial class refuse to accept the imminent threat of ecological, economic and social collapse, and the existential threat climate change poses. Neoliberal fundamentalism is a bipartisan affair that ignores the social costs of unrestrained capital. Moreover, this naive desire for civility and both-sides-isms obscures the spectacle of an astroturf political stunt bordering on a lynch mob. That kind of irrational fear is manipulated to some pretty horrific ends, and it’s your job to undermine it.

On the subject of flaccid leadership, Huber’s letter last week was a sad technocratic defense of the indefensible. What services can we conjure without funding? Will housing magically appear because the business community finds a heart? Yeah, right.

As an affluent white man, Huber can’t see how police terrorize the exclusively poor (especially black and brown) underclass. Criminalizing poor people is wrong, even dressed with platitudes. His vote was a grotesque betrayal of his supporters who wanted a humane approach to the housing catastrophe. He’s a fool who played right into the mob’s rope-burned hands.

Steve Breedlove, Chico

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I support Bernie for president. He is the one who can decontaminate us from the autocratic self-serving Trump regime. He has some good plans for the American people that will actually see the cost go down and improve our lives.

Remember that he alone will not be able to improve our lives. We must take back the Senate and put the government in the hands of the people. The Constitution says “government of the people, by the people, for the people.” It does not say welfare of corporations and corporate farms, which amounts to corporate socialism.

As Harry Truman said, socialism is a “scare word … for almost anything that helps all the people.”

Harvey Nelson, Chico

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I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed. I build stuff out of wood and use a lot of tools. Man’s very first tool was probably a stick. Way better than our fingers for digging roots, grubs and earwax. Everything that has ever been made evolved from that first stick. We improved on it and became good at making tools, too good.

A good tool can make things. A great tool can make a lot of things. We make too many things. We are being buried by things. Tools are a means to an end, perhaps our own end. I see a deconstruction of one kind or another on the horizon and can’t help but wonder what our world would have looked like had our ancestors just held onto that first stick and we dug our graves with it instead of burying ourselves in all of the crap we’ve made.

Danny Dietz, Chico

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Though it’s a sad story, James Mark Rippee is fortunate to have such a loving family. Many out in the streets are not so lucky. As one who has worked in a state hospital in the 1970s and who has witnessed 5150s stemming from bad drugs, I have watched the debate between mandated treatment and civil liberties and seen helpful and harmful effects of both.

One concept is at the crux of it: the continuum between freedom of choice and mandated treatment. Freedom of choice is available if one isn’t a danger to themselves or others. Mandated treatment protects one from doing harm and provides medical help. This has always been the stated circumstance for a 5150: danger to self or others.

While civil liberties are a birthright, they stop when one does harm. The concept of freedom always pairs with personal responsibility. Mandated treatment helps an individual to gain the tools of education and self-advocacy leading again to self-sufficiency.

For either the medical community or law enforcement to release someone into the community who has been known to inflict harm is absolutely shirking the very responsibility they have been vested with and sworn to uphold.

Mary M. Nordskog, Paradise

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For many concerned about homelessness and unhoused humans in our community, there’s a profound conundrum: What is most humane?

Is it more humane to leave a mentally ill individual to sleep under a bush in wet clothing, or to compel them into case-managed treatment? Is it more humane to leave addicts passed out in alleys, or to require they enter treatment to overcome their addiction?

To “compel” and “require” are to coerce. Coercion is to wield control over another’s freedom, and as such comes with grave responsibility. Coercion should never be taken lightly or applied as a blanket remedy; it requires careful consideration of an individual’s situation, and the likelihood of them harming others or themselves.

Alternatively, housing first paired with supportive services, adopted by Butte County, the state of California and numerous other jurisdictions around the country, has been proven to assist many mentally ill and addicted individuals in addressing their challenges. Because it removes them from the daily struggle to survive on the street, it allows them and their service providers to focus on recovery rather than where they will sleep that night, how to protect themselves or where to get their next meal.

Scott Huber, Chico

Editor’s note: The author is a member of the Chico City Council.

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The perilous gap between mental health services and community need is easily witnessed by engaging with human beings in mental health crisis.

Like the panicked-to-terror young woman threatening suicide over the thought of being placed into a mental institution. “No, I won’t ever go back!” Or the young man who tells his case manager he doesn’t want to go to a mental health hospital, who is then released back onto the streets from his Behavioral Health hold. He ultimately bled to death impaled on a barbed wire fence.

It’s often difficult to assess who would benefit from forced care, and for whom this would be perceived as a death sentence. The starker reality is the number of mental health hospital beds are woefully insufficient to address the crisis without incarceration, which is the de facto “forced care” mental health treatment model for the seriously mental ill.

Bill Mash, Chico

FREE ALL CANNABIS PRISONERS. We Could Save A Fortune of TAXPAYER DOLLARS Currently Wasted On Incarceration. REFUND THAT MONEY TO THE TAXPAYERS...

We could use the empty Jail Cells to Provide Shelter
for Homeless People... GEE, That Was Easy!

In the Distant Past... Idiot Politicians Declared a "War on Drugs." - Well, THAT PLAN Backfired and Now We Have Vast Quantities of People Incarcerated... at a Cost of $40,000 Per Year Per Prisoner... INSANE!

We Could USE That Money to Pay for "Medicare for All" that could include Drug Addiction Treatment.

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Why Keep People in Jail for a Drug
That Isn't Even Illegal Anymore? DUH...

Obviously, Nancy Reagan's "War on Drugs" has Been a Failure. Instead of Repeating what does not work, we ought to try something DIFFERENT.

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Of Course, Rainbow Spiralism is MORE than just a Shirt... It's a Way Of Life!

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Redwood Forest Near Eureka, California...

and a Digital Happy Fish

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Marijuana Tourism - my trip to Washington State, The Space Needle, The Experience Music Pavilion and then Oregon

As legalization spread across the USA I wanted to experience LEGAL weed as soon as possible. When I retired from work I did a lot of driving around sleeping in the back of my VAN... I was like a turtle with my home on my back.

A rarely noticed Side Effect of the Failed War on Drugs. It Makes most teenagers HATE the POLICE. And that becomes a lifetime of NON-COOPERATION With LAWN FORCEMENT.

Since the majority of people in the USA have smoked Marijuana and since Criminals hate cops therefore the majority of Americans Hate Cops. The term NARC is an insult due to CRAZYLAWS [tm]. Teenagers are not easily fooled. The LAW says that Marijuana is a Schedule ONE Illegal Drug with NO KNOWN Medicinal Value. AND at the same time Medical Marijuana is Legal in Many States... OBVIOUSLY, SOMEONE IS LYING.

Read More: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/07/a-rarely-noticed-side-effect-of-failed.html

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE FAILED WAR ON DRUGS. "It seems like, every time we declare a 'war on' something we make the problem worse. I wish we would declare a War On Hot Chicks! We would have them on every street corner, giving themselves away."

In the Beginning, God created the Kind Herb and it was good. Then he created the Opium Poppy and it was NOT so good. and the Coca plant and the Coffee plant and God grew mold on rye and Magic mushrooms and peyote and Mimosa Bark and FREAKING PSYCHEDELIC TOADS! What was God Doing? Creating all this? Well, as Benjamin Franklin said... "BEER IS PROOF THAT GOD LOVES US AND WANTS US TO BE HAPPY."

Meanwhile... A Mad Dog decided to Declare a War on Drugs! Harry Anslinger convinced the Elected officials that Marijuana was the Devil's Weed and REEFER MADNESS was born.

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"Everybody" criticizes Joe Biden for Being Wrong about the 1994 Crime bill and The Mass Incarceration of Black Men. HOWEVER...

While it is true that the EXTREME punishment for Crack Cocaine in comparison to Powdered Cocaine did lead to VAST Quantities of Black Men to be Incarcerated... Is That Good For America? Think this through... It is unlikely for a person to have children WHILE IN PRISON... Jails Separate Inmates by SEX. Men in one Facility and Women in a Different one... The Effect is that This LAW has prevented Black GENES from reproducing. Classic GENOCIDE. Future Generations will be Whiter... as Black Women who live in the general population sometimes select White Men as Lovers... and the Black Men In Prison WILL NOT BE PART OF THE GENE POOL... So, we have to decide... Is Genocide a Good Thing? Some say That Depends on The Genes... I will let you ponder that thought.

My Opinion: Genocide is INSANE. Let the Prisoners OUT. Make the punishment for crack equal to the punishment for Powdered Cocaine RETROACTIVELY. The Freed Prisoners will go back to their families and perhaps they will help raise their own children... get useful jobs... do something of Value to Society. AND... We will save Millions of Dollars Currently wasted on Incarceration!

DO NOT GO to the Trump Riot in Miami on Tuesday. Massive Arrests Possible... Law Enforcement is Ready to LOCK 'EM UP!

Photographs of Chico, California - In the Central Valley of California – 100 Miles North of Sacramento. Nestled near the Foothills of Mount Lassen. Famous for Swimming in Chico Creek and Big Al’s Drive in Restaurant… https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/07/07/photographs-of-chico-california/

A Side Effect of Joe Biden's 1994 Crime Bill That Caused Mass Incarceration of Black Men is... Eugenics... Genocide... REALLY!

FREE ALL CANNABIS PRISONERS. We Could Save A Fortune of TAXPAYER DOLLARS Currently Wasted On Incarceration. REFUND THAT MONEY TO THE TAXPAYERS...

Embrace Rainbow Spiralism Button FOR SALE!

MindSprout Case-Mate iPhone Case For Sale.

Visit the Forest. It Is For Rest T-Shirt FOR SALE!

Marijuana Tourism - my trip to Washington State, The Space Needle, The Experience Music Pavilion and then Oregon

A rarely noticed Side Effect of the Failed War on Drugs. It Makes most teenagers HATE the POLICE. And that becomes a lifetime of NON-COOPERATION With LAWN FORCEMENT.

"Everybody" criticizes Joe Biden for Being Wrong about the 1994 Crime bill and The Mass Incarceration of Black Men. HOWEVER...

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