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With Marijuana Legal, California is Closing Unused Prisons. Saving Taxpayers a Fortune... By Getting a Clue, Lawmakers have Increased Voluntary Taxes while Saving Money wasted on Law Enforcement... Everybody Wins!

and I Don't Pay a Penny in Weed Taxes because I Don't Smoke!

HEADLINE: Northern California prison to close, cutting 1,000 jobs from rural community... Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration announced plans to close a state prison in rural Lassen County next year, shutting down a site that employed more than 1,000 people and served for decades as a home base for inmate firefighter training.

The announcement follows a long decline in the number of inmates in state custody that accelerated when the coronavirus pandemic hit, compelling the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to quickly draw down its population.

The California Correctional Center in Susanville will close in June 2022, the department announced Tuesday. The 2,064 inmates currently housed there will be transferred to other facilities “based on their housing, custody and rehabilitative needs,” according to a department statement.

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article250643064.html

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SEE? Every Day the World Becomes a Better Place to Live... Can You Imagine That Bribed Lawmakers Actually Made Magic Mushrooms Illegal... WTF?

Ongoing research shows that psilocybin could help treat certain medical conditions, including post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and addiction...

https://www.axios.com/denver-magic-mushrooms-decriminalization-psilocybin-63ffdc19-f2b1-421c-ab09-dcf45559bda4.html

The Recover, a national news provider for mental health and substance abuse, recently began releasing news about psilocybin and their potential health benefits.

Psychedelic drugs such as magic mushrooms have long-lasting medical and spiritual benefits, according to a new study. Magic Mushroom Landscape has established a company to evaluate new treatments related to psychedelics and mental health. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/psilocybin-mushrooms-mental-health-research-070000926.html

Nearly two years after Denver made history as the nation’s first city to decriminalize hallucinogenic mushrooms for personal use, the nightmare of rampant abuse and public intoxication feared by opponents has failed to materialize. https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-04-05/denver-dabbles-with-magic-mushrooms-but-using-them-to-treat-mental-health-disorders-remains-underground

Bob Wold spent 20 years trying 70 drugs in an attempt to treat his debilitating cluster headaches. It wasn't until he tried "magic" mushrooms, a psychedelic drug, that he found relief. https://www.insider.com/man-says-magic-mushrooms-psilocybin-cured-excruciating-cluster-migraines-2021-4

California senators pointed to the “failed” War on Drugs and new scientific evidence regarding the benefits of certain hallucinogens. https://www.courthousenews.com/california-inches-toward-decriminalizing-psychedelics/

In a wild, misty corner of the Golden State, Marisa Meltzer discovers an alternate version of the California dream, where fierce independence is as prized as ancient redwoods and empty Pacific beaches.

https://www.cntraveler.com/story/discovering-californias-lost-coast

Fashion History: When I went "to Town" in the 1960s (San Francisco) I was wearing My High School Sports Letterman Sweater... When we went out to a Dance at the Fillmore West, My Friend Loaned my a Second Hand Army Jacket... So I Would Appear Cool...Remember Army Jackets? Like Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band...

and then much later I bought a Lightweight Camouflage Jacket and Sewed Stripes Running Down The Sleeves made out of Purple Sequins... With a Circle at the End of the Sleeve... My Attempt to Make a Sgt. Pepper Jacket...

My Goal in Life was to Become a Record Cover Artist... OOPS... Didn't Happen... Became a Draftsman at a Computer Company Instead... BUT... I Did Get To SELL DRAWINGS FOR A LIVING... My specialty was Printed Circuit Board Artwork. It was Photographed and Used to Make the Actual Electrical Connections between Integrated Circuits... I Learned that Skill at West Valley Junior College in Saratoga, CA

50th anniversary of the Summer of Love... The Diggers, Haight Ashbury, LSD and the Grateful Dead. It certainly has been a Long Strange Trip. Congratulations to all those of us who have survived... One thing is for certain...

The culture of the United States was

radically different After the 1960's...

The conformism of the 1950's was blown away when LSD became widely available. Owsley made the chemical and made it available at Acid Tests with Ken Kesey and the Grateful Dead. He also gave it to the Beatles for their Magical Mystery Tour. The spirit lives on in a yearly camping trip called The Rainbow Gathering. It's like Woodstock but the performers are not paid and I'm in the Band.

READ MORE:

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/08/50th-anniversary-of-summer-of-love.html

Currently, a peaceful village called Arcata, California thrives using the basic concepts of Flower Power. It's on Highway 101 near the Oregon Border... Home of Humboldt State University... If you want to experience the bliss yourself, take a loan from the Federal Department of Education and go to college at HSU. Arcata also is the center of Marijuana farming in the USA. The vast majority of the Grass is grown in Humboldt, Mendocino, Del Norte, Siskiyou and Trinity Counties... The extreme North Western corner of California. http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/did-you-ever-notice-arcata-

california.html

Rainbow Gathering Idaho 2001: A Gathering of the Tribes...

I went to the gathering with a specific goal in mind. I wanted to play my guitar and sing in public. Yes, mission accomplished. I was Living in Chico, California and working at the plastics factory. When there was a layoff, my wife suggested that I borrow the car and drive over to the gathering. My friend Mike Jensen wanted to go and so we checked the oil, brake fluid, transmission fluid and water and set out on a classic American road trip. We made it as far as Reno the first day and slept by the side of the road.... READ MORE:

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/rainbow-gathering-idaho-2001.html

Grateful Deadhead ART and MyStory... American History...

I first noticed the Grateful Dead in 1968 in English class at junior high school. Our teacher had put up posters on the wall of the classroom and we wrote essays about them.

He was attempting to stimulate creative WRITING but more importantly,

creative THINKING.

One was an American flag made out of swastikas and another was a solarized/negative photo of 5 hairy men standing in front of "LITTLE BOXES" type suburban tract homes.

Our English teacher

stopped working for the school system that year and has never been heard of since. That has happened often to people that go to see the Dead... They change their lifestyle and start associating

with a different set of people...

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/grateful-deadhead-art-and-mystory.html

Grateful Deadhead Tribute Webpage. Pictures and Stories.

Many thanks to all that made the Grateful Dead an American Miracle... Just remember, if our lives together were written as a fiction story, everyone would dismiss it as being unbelieveable... Yet it all really happened!

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/grateful-deadhead-tribute-webpage.html

Rainbow Gathering in California 2004. Photographs and My Story...Om...

What IS the Rainbow Gathering? To me, it is Woodstock with amateur musicians and I’m in the band… Thousands of people go backpacking for a couple of weeks… Every year during the end of June and the beginning of July… The location is different every year but it is always in a National Forest… It’s an intentional temporary village…

This is a description about my trip to The Rainbow Gathering in California 2004… I wrote this to help me remember… READ MORE:

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/p/what-is-rainbow-gathering-to-me-it-is.html

Rainbow Gathering Psychedelic Art by Greg Vanderlaan vandergreg gvan42 purple64ets gregvan

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My Music Video: FREE ALL THE CANNABIS PRISONERS - A Mockery of Nancy Ray Gun... Jest Say KNOW!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z7C0t31hww

LYRICS:

Free All The Cannabis Prisoners...[3X][G D A D A] We Could Use the Empty Jail Cells...

for a Homeless Shelter. [2X][E, F/E, E] Nancy Reagan Was a Speed Freak.

Eating Doctor Pills. [C/E, B/E] and Then She Decided... to Clean UP... [Bb/E, A, E, A]

That's when she went on the

"Just Say Know" Crusade... [C/E, B/E] She Decided That Everyone Else

Should Clean UP TOO! [Bb/E, A, E, A]

Hey Kids! What Do You Say...

When Your Doctor Offers You Drugs? [2X] [G D A D A] Don't Be Like Nancy and Say Gimme MORE...

Gimme MORE Gimme MORE MORE MORE![E F F# G G# A] "Just Say Know!" Knowledge is Important!

K. N. O. W. [G D A D A] [3X] Knowing What Drugs are Safe...

Could Save Your Life... [E, F/E, E] Reagan's War on Drugs Turned Out

To Be a Horrible Disaster! [C/E, B/E] Millions of Lives Ruined. [Bb/E, A, E, A] Billions of Dollars Wasted.

All because Nancy Was Getting Wasted... [C/E, B/E]

Look at her! She Was an Obvious Meth Monkey! [Bb/E, A, E, A] Nancy Was a Speed Freak! That's Why She Was So Skinny![3X][G D A D A] Well, sHE'S dEAD nOW...

eVENTUALLY THE dOCTOR pILLS kILLED hER... [E, F/E, E] hER oPINIONS Just dON'T cOUNT aNYMORE!... [E, F/E, E] Legalize the Kind Herb... Tax It, Regulate It. [2X][G D A] Use The Money for Health Care...

Instead of "For Profit" Prisons... [E, F/E, E] We Need Treatment For Addicts...

Before we Have ANOTHER 400,000 Opioid Deaths...[E, F/E, E] They Say Medical Marijuana has No Medical Value. [C/E, B/E] The Government is Lying and...

Kids are Not That Easily Fooled! [Bb/E, A, E, A] Consider This: The Government Lied to US... About Marijuana... [C/E, B/E] Could they Be Lying about

EVERYTHING ELSE TOO? [Bb/E, A, E, A] 9/11? Roswell? The Kennedy Assassination? Enquiring Minds Want To Know! [G D A] Why Should Taxpayers Pay and Pay and Pay for Incarceration? [2X][G D A D A] That Makes No Sense! [2X][E, F/E, E] C/E = E0 A0 D5 G5 B5 e0 B/E = E0 A0 D4 G4 B4 e0 Bb/E = E0 A0 D3 G3 B3 e0 A = E0 A0 D3 G3 B3 e0

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Let's Legalize Marijuana, Tax it and Free ALL The Cannabis Prisoners. REFUND The Money Currently Wasted on Law Enforcement to The Taxpayers!

It's A VOLUNTARY TAX!
I Wouldn't Pay a Penny 'Cause I Don't Smoke...

Contact your Senators and
Representative in the House...
Tell 'em to END CrazyLaws®
https://www.senate.gov/
and
https://www.house.gov/

Biden's Position: decriminalization, expunging past convictions, federal rescheduling, legalizing cannabis for medical purposes and letting states set their own policies.

THAT'S BETTER THAN CRAZYLAWS Like We Have Now!

What's Trump's Position?

Marijuana (cannabis) and the rights of individual states to legalize recreational and medical marijuana was an issue of President Donald Trump's presidential campaign, and he formally stated during his campaign that he believed states should have the right to manage their own policies with regard to medical and recreational marijuana.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_policy_of_the_Donald_Trump_administration

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A Worthy Charity. Helping a Retired Lady Living on Social Security Make Ends Meet. The Rent on Her Trailer Space Just Increased... For No Reason... Greedy Landlords...

https://www.gofundme.com/f/cxfg3f-1000

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Legalize Marijuana, Tax it and Free ALL The Cannabis Prisoners. REFUND The Money Currently Wasted on Law Enforcement to The Taxpayers!

More Free Coloring Book Art At:

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/04/peace-and-love-free-coloring-book-art.html

I Paid Into My Social Security Fund My Entire Life. My Employers Did Too! Republicans Plan To Steal Our Savings... Vote Democratic Nationwide to Prevent The Theft.

BOOK: Social Security Works for Everyone!,
is an evolution of the argument Social Security
Works co-founders Nancy J. Altman and Eric R. Kingson made in their acclaimed first book,
Social Security Works!

https://socialsecurityworks.org/2021/06/21/social-security
-works-for-everyone/

Kevin McCarthy Says He Will Cut Social Security and Medicare If He Becomes Speaker. Believe Him!

https://socialsecurityworks.org/2022/10/18/mccarthy-
will-cut-social-security-and-medicare-if-he-becomes-
speaker/

the White House issued a release on its website —
titled “Congressional Republicans’ Five-Part Plan to
Increase Inflation and Costs for American Families” —
that details how Social Security and Medicare might be
imperiled. Among its points:

The Republican Study Committee, which represents a
majority of House Republicans, has proposed a plan to
cut Medicare and Social Security benefits, including
through privatization and raising the eligibility age.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) has called for putting Medicare
and Social Security on the chopping block every five years.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R.-Wis.) has said Medicare and
Social Security should be put up for a vote every single
year.

Repealing the Inflation Reduction Act prescription drug
provisions would increase prescription drug prices by
eliminating the requirement that drug companies pay
rebates to Medicare when they raise prices faster than
inflation and eliminate the IRA’s $2,000 cap on drug
costs at the pharmacy.

Separately, President Joe Biden told a meeting of
Democratic National Committee members that
Democrats are going to “protect” Social Security
and Medicare.

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How is Social Security financed?

Social Security is financed through a dedicated payroll tax.
Employers and employees each pay 6.2 percent of wages up
to the taxable maximum of $147,000 (in 2022), while the
self-employed pay 12.4 percent.

https://www.ssa.gov/news/press/factsheets/
HowAreSocialSecurity.htm

Vote for Yourself - Your Freedom To Choose -
Your Freedom to Vote - Your Freedom to Receive
Social Security, Medicare and Veterans Benefits -
Your Freedom to Read - Your Freedom to Love -
SAVE AMERICA FROM TRUMP -
VOTE DEMOCRATIC NATIONWIDE

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/10/vote-4-yourself.html

Remember: Trump Signed the Help Crazy People Buy Guns Law... HJ RES 40...

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-joint-resolution/40

If a person gets a Social Security Check due to INSANITY They No Longer have to Report That Fact on a Gun Purchase Background Check...

MAGA Madman Tried to Murder Paul Pelosi with a Hammer but he FAILED. Here's the Background of the QAnon FREAK. Was He Preparing for an INSANITY DEFENSE by Posting CrazyTalk® Online?

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/10/maga-madman-hammer-time.html

FUND THE POLICE. Now that Marijuana is Legal, I'm Totally in Favor of More Police Arresting REAL CRIMINALS. For Example: TREASON, Insurrection, Murder, Rape, Fraud, Income Tax Evasion, Robbery, Kidnapping, Teenagers with GUNS, muggers, arson, wife beaters, BRIBERY of Politicians and Seditious Conspiracy.

People That DO EVIL Really Need to Be Put Behind Bars... For Example: Donald Trump... #LockHimUP

Trump Failed - Federal Deficit Skyrocketed When He Signed the Tax Cut for the Rich Law. Fight Back! Save America From Trump - VOTE DEMOCRAT NATIONWIDE!

Please Share VOTE DEMOCRAT Memes on Parler, Gab, Twitter, Truth Social, Ello, FaceBorg, Mastodon, Minds, GETTR, LinkdIn, MeWe, Tribel, Tumblr and Instagram... THANKS!

Here are some MEMEs That You May Share on Social Media... Copy and Paste them Everywhere!

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Take Action: Sign our petition to expand Social Security!
https://socialsecurityworks.org/take-action-sign-petition-expand-social-security/

Crime is Much Worse in Republican States. Crazy Gun Laws Cause More Murder. Hopeless Poverty Causes Increase in Theft, Burglary and Armed Robbery... VOTE DEMOCRATIC.

https://www.thirdway.org/report/the-red-state-murder-problemThe rate of murders in the US has gone up at an alarming rate. But, despite a media narrative to the contrary, this is a problem that afflicts Republican-run cities and states as much or more than the Democratic bastions.
In 2020, per capita murder rates were 40% higher in states won by Donald Trump than those won by Joe Biden.
8 of the 10 states with the highest murder rates in 2020 voted for the Republican presidential nominee in every election this century.

Red states report higher rates of violent crime than blue states...
https://gigafact.org/fact-briefs/do-red-states-rank-higher-in-violent-crime-rates-than-blue-states

According to 2019 FBI data, seven out of ten states with the highest per-capita rates of violent crime voted Republican in the 2020 election. In contrast, seven out of ten states with the lowest rates voted Democrat.

#TrumpIsDead is trending on Twitter after a verified user apparently decided to test moderation of the platform under Elon Musk's reign...
https://news.yahoo.com/trumpisdead-trending-twitter-verified-user-000443923.html

What IS Bubble UP Economics and How Does it Work? Simply Raise the Minimum Wage to Fifteen Dollars an Hour and Raise all Social Security Checks 15%. Then all Those people will spend the extra money in their paychecks at American Businesses. Increasing Profits. Making Stockholders Happy! Then those businesses will have to hire more people to handle the extra Customers. Decreasing Unemployment Insurance Payments. Everybody WINS! With EMPLOYMENT AT A JOB becoming a Viable Alternative to Selling Drugs for a Street Gang, Some teenagers will choose Employment... Reducing CRIME... Reducing Costs for Prisons... Reducing Costs for Law Enforcement... People will buy more food for their Children. Causing Better Health and Smarter Kids... Starvation is Not Good for Children's Brains... Farmers will sell More. Truckers will move more merchandise to stores. Increased Competition for Workers will cause Everybody's Wages to Go Up. All those Workers will pay more in Income Taxes... That would make the Government happy... Right NOW, we are having a National Debt Ceiling Crisis because the Government is Spending More that it Takes in with Taxes... Bubble UP Economics would reverse that trend... The Money Bubbles UP Through Every Layer of Society... With a rising tide, every boat floats! We Tried Ronald Reagan's "Voodoo" Economics and It Has Failed... "People" Say That Bubble UP! Economics WILL MAKE Employers LAY OFF Workers... However... Employers HAVE ALREADY LAID OFF EVERYONE THEY POSSIBLY CAN... Have you Ever Seen a Business where People Work There but Have Nothing To DO? Never!

Who Could Possibly be Opposed to the JOY of Bubble UP! Economics? Well, there are people in this world that have COMPULSIVE HOARDING OF MONEY SYNDROME. It's a Mental Health Disease just Like The Crazy Cat Lady…https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/11/whip-inflation-now-2022.html
How to Whip Inflation Now 2022 [FICTION] Since Raising Prices is a Voluntary Choice by Corporate CEOs... WHAT IF?

[Disclaimer]

"What If We Whipped Inflation by USING ACTUAL WHIPS on the People That are CAUSING The Problem? Maybe They Would "Voluntarily" Choose to Lower Prices? Could Happen!" - Said Silly Billy...

READ MORE OF THIS SILLY STORY!

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/11/whip-inflation-now-2022.html

Taxpayers Funding Islamic Schools in Oklahoma. That's CRAZY!

Oklahoma takes 'momentous' step to allow taxpayer-funded religious schools.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/12/oklahoma-takes-momentous-step-to-allow-taxpayer-funded-religious-schools-00073515

Nowhere in this Article Does it Say WHICH Religious Schools Taxpayers Will Sponsor... KRSNA? Buddha? THOR? Hindu? Voodoo? Rastafarians?, Pastafarians? There are 9 Billion Names of GOD!

I wonder... Will they Have SCIENCE Classes at These Schools? Or Will Everything Be Explained by MAGIC?

With Marijuana Legal, California is Closing Unused Prisons. Saving Taxpayers a Fortune... By Getting a Clue, Lawmakers have Increased Voluntary Taxes while Saving Money wasted on Law Enforcement... Everybody Wins!

and then much later I bought a Lightweight Camouflage Jacket and Sewed Stripes Running Down The Sleeves made out of Purple Sequins... With a Circle at the End of the Sleeve... My Attempt to Make a Sgt. Pepper Jacket...

50th anniversary of the Summer of Love... The Diggers, Haight Ashbury, LSD and the Grateful Dead. It certainly has been a Long Strange Trip. Congratulations to all those of us who have survived... One thing is for certain...

My Music Video: FREE ALL THE CANNABIS PRISONERS - A Mockery of Nancy Ray Gun... Jest Say KNOW!

A Worthy Charity. Helping a Retired Lady Living on Social Security Make Ends Meet. The Rent on Her Trailer Space Just Increased... For No Reason... Greedy Landlords...

I Paid Into My Social Security Fund My Entire Life. My Employers Did Too! Republicans Plan To Steal Our Savings... Vote Democratic Nationwide to Prevent The Theft.

Taxpayers Funding Islamic Schools in Oklahoma. That's CRAZY!

Oklahoma takes 'momentous' step to allow taxpayer-funded religious schools.

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