Alternative words for Marijuana so you can post to Facebook without Homeland Security putting you on a list.

13, M, MJ, ganja, The Nice, The Kind, Bud, hemp, hashish, boo, weed, reefer, herb, tea, grass, joint, wacky tabaky and the ever popular... medicine. Know any others? Comment...

GV: pot, Acapulco gold, Maui wowie, Panama red, bhang, cannabis, doobie, dope, ganja, loco weed, maryjane, roach, sinsemilla and "The Mule" because it kicks you in the head...

KA responds: I can never spell the word anyway. And thank god I live in Australia where I post openly.

GV: By the way, if you post all these words you are certain to be added to the list. and... Australians are added to the list too... because we have Reciprocity of Echelon. US, Great Britan and Australia share "signals intellegence". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echelon_(signals_intelligence)

LH responds: a bud of mine (pun intended lol) used to call it a tuna sandwich..ya know, i got the bread, you got any tuna? lets make it a sandwich....my ex husband used to call it car parts...i just love code names lol

GV: A dealer I knew sold on the telephone and was concerned about Lawn Forcement wiretapping. So he would call up and say he had "Tickets" to the (insert name) concert. Row 8 seat 25. 1/8th of an Ounce cost $25. That way he could name the weight and price in code.

Link to an article with the list of words: http://www.tokeofthetown.com/2012/02/homeland_security_searches_your_facebook_for_marij.php

Top 50 list of Famous Marijuana Smokers.

Top 50 list of influential people who smoked marijuana.

1. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
"When I was a kid, I inhaled frequently. That was the point."
(Source: YouTube)

2. ASSOCIATE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS
"The White House said today that Judge Clarence Thomas, President Bush's Supreme Court nominee, had smoked marijuana while in college."
(Source: New York Times)

3. PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON
"I experimented with marijuana a time or two."
(Source: YouTube)

4. PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
"I wouldn't answer the marijuana questions. You know why? Because I don't want some little kid doing what I tried."
(Source: New York Times)

5. MICHAEL PHELPS
“[Phelps] firmly denies that he takes drugs, suggesting that the notorious photo of him smoking from a bong was a one-time lapse of judgment.”
(Source: Huffington Post)

6. FORMER SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE, NEWT GINGRICH (R-GA)
"That was a sign we were alive and in graduate school in that era."
(Source: New York Magazine, May 1995 (p.42))

7. JON STEWART
“Do you know how many movies I wrote when I was high?”
(Source: The Daily Show)

8. GEORGE SOROS
"He said he had tried marijuana, enjoyed it, 'but it did not become a habit and I have not tasted it in many years.'"
(Source: Reuters, 2/6/97)

9. BILL GATES
“As for drugs – well, Gates was certainly not unusual there. Marijuana was the pharmaceutical of choice…”
(Source: Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry--and Made Himself the Richest Man in America)

10. GEORGE CLOONEY
“The owner of a local cannabis café told reporters George Clooney was no stranger there.”
(Source: The Weed Blog)

11. LIBERTARIAN PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE GARY JOHNSON
“In that state somebody came by and said, 'Gary? Would marijuana help do you think?' And my response was immediately, 'Yes, I don't know why I didn't think of it, but I think that would help immensely.' And it did."
(Source: Huffington Post)

12. LEBRON JAMES
“James also revealed he and his teammates smoked marijuana one night after getting access to a hotel room in Akron.”
(Source: ESPN)

13. MAYOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG
''You bet I did. And I enjoyed it.''
(Source: New York Times)

14. SARAH PALIN
"I can't claim a Bill Clinton and say that I never inhaled.”
(Source: CBS News)

15. WOODY HARRELSON
“I do smoke… it’s about personal freedom… Seventy-two million people in this country have smoked pot…. These people should not be criminals.”
(Source: New York Daily News)

16. AL GORE
“Mr. Gore had said his cannabis consumption was 'infrequent and rare.'”
(Source: The Guardian)

17. BILL MAHER
"Look, I have never made a secret of the fact that I have tried marijuana... About 50,000 times."
(Source: YouTube)

18. WILLIE NELSON
“Don't tell me about health when you're talking about legalizing marijuana because it's not dangerous health-wise. I'm the canary in the mine, and I'm still healthy.”
(Source: The Guardian)

19. SNOOP DOGG (SNOOP LION)
“It makes me feel the way I need to feel.”
(Source: Esquire)

20. FORMER GOV. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER (CA)
"I did smoke a joint and I did inhale."
(Source: CBS News)

21. MAYA ANGELOU
“Angelou settled into a job as a waitress and began smoking marijuana with abandon.”
(Source: Maya Angelou (Bloom's BioCritiques))

22. KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR
“Regular marijuana use didn't impede the ability of basketball legend… Kareem Abdul-Jabbar”
(Source: Forbes)

23. BRAD PITT
“I was hiding out from the celebrity thing, I was smoking way too much [marijuana].”
(Source: Daily Mail)

24. ANGELINA JOLIE
“… the one that has the worst effect for me was pot. I felt silly and giggly - I hate feeling like that.”
(Source: Metro)

25. HARRISON FORD
“At the 2002 NORML Conference, Bill Maher called for "prominent people... who smoke a lot of pot," like Ford.”
(Source: Celebstoner)

26. DAVID LETTERMAN
“I went through one period when I smoked a surprising, a really breath-taking, amount of grass almost every night.”
(Source: Cannabis Culture)

27. JACK NICHOLSON
“The hard drugs are gone, but he continues… to smoke cannabis.”
(Source: Daily Mail)

28. JEFF BRIDGES
“If it's (marijuana) offered I'll take it but I'm not a regular smoker, despite what people may think.”
(Source: azcentral.com)

29. OLIVER STONE
“I went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as Michael Douglas said, becoming a beast.”
(Source: The Raw Story)

30. JOHNNY DEPP
"I'm not a great pothead or anything like that… but weed is much, much less dangerous than alcohol."
(Source: Celebstoner)

31. BOB DYLAN
“Bob Dylan introduced Sir Paul to marijuana in the mid-Sixties after discovering the Beatle was a 'pot virgin.'”
(Source: The Telegraph)

32. MORGAN FREEMAN
"Never give up the ganja."
(Source: The Guardian)

33. JACK BLACK
“There is an occasional celebratory jay, but it's not a wake-and-bake scenario anymore at all.”
(Source: Huffington Post)

34. SETH ROGEN
“I smoked a lot of weed growing up.”
(Source: High Times)

35. MATT DAMON
“The first time I smoked was at home with my mother and step-father.”
(Source: Weed Quotes)

36. CONAN O'BRIEN
“I’ve tried pot, but it doesn’t do much for me.”
(Source: Pink is the New Blog)

37. ROBERT DOWNEY JR.
“Robert Downey Jr. said he started smoking weed at age 8.”
(Source: NBC - New York)

38. JENNIFER ANISTON
“I enjoy it once in a while. There is nothing wrong with that. Everything in moderation. I wouldn't call myself a pot-head.”
(Source: Daily Mail)

39. BILL MURRAY
“Arrested and convicted for possessing nine pounds of marijuana in 1970.”
(Source: Celebstoner)

40. HUGH HEFNER
“Smoking helped put me in touch with the realm of the senses.”
(Source: Schaffer Library of Drug Policy)

41. TOMMY CHONG
“Legalizing marijuana means a lot more to me than just smoking a joint. I want to be able to use cannabis to treat my cancer without being arrested.”
(Source: CNN)

42. CHEECH MARIN
“Q: Do you even smoke pot? A: Yeah, every once in a while, I’m Cheech!”
(Source: Yahoo News)

43. ROBIN WILLIAMS
“When we were growing up we knew the side effects of the drugs we were taking… marijuana, side effects were laughter, Frosted Flakes.”
(Source: HBO.com)

44. WHOOPI GOLDBERG
“Smoking cigarettes and pot every now and then are my habits.”
(Source: New York Post)

45. FORMER GOV. JESSE VENTURA (MN)
“I grew up in the '60s. If you grew up in the '60s and say you didn't smoke pot, you are either a liar or you really didn't grow up in the '60s.”
(Source: YouTube)

46. STEPHEN KING
“I don't smoke very much marijuana at all anymore, because I'm afraid of additives, which come from decontrol and deregulation.”
(Source: High Times)

47. BRUCE WILLIS
"I only liked pot, though. I smoked a lot of pot and when I wasn't acting, I was out dancing every night.”
(Source: Ask Men)

48. NEIL YOUNG
"I try not to smoke too much. I don't want to set a bad example for the kids."
(Source: Celebstoner)

49. MONTEL WILLIAMS
“… and I will [use marijuana for medical reasons] every day until I drop dead.”
(Source: YouTube)

50. CARLOS SANTANA
“Santana built this place in 1983, about when he began smoking marijuana after 10 years of abstinence.”
(Source: CBS News)

and... Popeye the Sailor man. "Spinach" in his pipe gave him power.


You are not alone... It is estimated that over 50% of adults in the USA are criminals.

Legalize the Kind Herb. It is IMMORAL to put people in cages for a plant. Legalize Cannabis.

There ARE people that care about popularity of ideas. For Example: Politicians. They take the zeitgeist of the voters and craft their campaigns to echo what they hear. I believe the millions of Facebook posts promoting Legalization of Marijuana have an effect on laws. Keep on posting and emailing congress... Their jobs depend on voting for what is popular. Not all are paid puppets of the super rich.

Legalize Marijuana

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pass it on... did you ever notice that the endless campaign for legalization of marijuana is changing American public opinion and helping pass sane laws? Remember Governor Arnold of California DECRIMINALIZED POSSESSION OF LESS THAN AN OUNCE. Now it's not a misdemeanor... it's an infraction... like getting a traffic ticket... Thanks! and more states are moving toward legalization every year.

Can President Obama afford to ignore the MILLIONS of VOTERS that support legalization of Hemp and Marijuana?

Top 10 Reasons To Legalize Marijuana.

This list is inspired by David Letterman's Late Night Show. 

10. You can be cool like the President was when he smoked weed.

9. Marijuana doesn't kill you like alcohol, cigarettes, and prescription drugs.

8. Regulating marijuana like alcohol will add billions of dollars in tax revenues and new jobs to the economy.

7. Medical marijuana can be less expensive and cause less side effects than it's prescription counterparts.

6. The United States can save billions of dollars in enforcement costs and allocate police resources to higher priority matters.

5. Bongs and pipes are functional works of art.

4. A majority of Americans support legalization.

3. HR 2306: "Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibtion Act of 2011" is a federal bill waiting in Congress to regulate marijuana like alcohol.

2. A really stoned dude is usually more pleasant and less dangerous than a guy who is extremely drunk.

1. Personal freedom, which means the right to choose what constitutes your own private, personal, individual happiness, so long as it respects the rights of others.

Legalize both Hemp AND Cannabis. The Campaign is working! Keep on Keeping ON!

Thanks to the efforts of people like US. Legal Cannabis 

is becoming a reality WORLDWIDE.

We WILL Free the Leaf. 

The Rainbow Effect above is done using the Photoshop Filter called ZIG ZAG. Really... ZIG ZAG is a popular brand of cigarette rolling papers traditionally used for rolling marijuana... wow... is Adobe clued into popular culture and specifically making products stoners like? YES.

http://www.hempct.info/

Please PIRATE THESE IMAGES and use them to do good worldwide. Feel free to use them on your own blog, webpage or print on a piece of hemp paper and stick it on your community bulletin board. Due to the efforts of people like YOU the laws are being changed. Thanks! NOW, let's email president Trump and tell him we want legalization... or mail him a letter... endless Facebook Posts are causing the laws to change... Please Like and Share...

The Laws about Marijuana are often misused to stifle freedom of speech. Is it any co-incidence that both Dr. Timothy Leary and Ken Kesey were arrested for possession? No, they were speaking out in public about the positive effects of LSD and the government put them in jail to prevent them from campaigning. Did you know that both John Lennon and Paul McCartney were arrested for possession? Clearly, the laws were used to prevent them from spreading their message...

The reason Legalization of both hemp and marijuana is gaining public support is millions of Facebook posts revealing truth. Frankly speaking, EDUCATION IS WORKING. Once people are exposed to reality, it is difficult to ignore. Please continue the campaign by re-posting, sharing and PIRATING THIS ART. Use it on your own blog, webpage or even create Zazzle products and sell them... Feel free to make a profit on my art. I give it to you, the world... Have FUN!

http://www.zazzle.com/gregvan/legalize+gifts

or

http://www.zazzle.com/gregvan/hemp+gifts

or...

Build your own CafePress or Zazzle Webstore and create your own 

Legalize Hemp and Marijuana products for sale. 

I was able to make a profit when the people of California were campaigning for Proposition 19 and donated the money to the election fund. It was the first time I EVER donated money to a political campaign. The REASON i felt compelled to donate was that it was money earned by selling buttons and stickers and so It wasn't REALLY my money, it was donations from people worldwide. Thanks. 

I was just enabling people to donate in tiny amounts... 

a great way to fight corporate funding. 

http://www.zazzle.com/gregvan/spiralism+gifts

You might be wondering WHO COULD POSSIBLY BE IN FAVOR OF PROHIBITION?

Well, the people that earn a profit from CRAZYLAWS. That's Who. 

Tell Congress it's OK to BEHAVE SMART by Legalizing Cannabis.

We could reduce spending on law enforcement, create jobs and increase revenue. GEE, the IDIOTLAWS we have now are astonishingly ridiculous. Why Not? http://www.senate.gov/reference/common/faq/How_to_contact_senators.htm email your senator... and http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/ email congress... and http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments email the President

Professor Richard Wolff questions IF Capitalism is a good way to run a world. NO. Too crisis prone... Economic meltdowns are built into the system.

http://www.rdwolff.com/

He proposes a different system...

Opinion

Yes, there is an alternative to capitalism: Mondragon shows the way

Richard Wolff

Why are we told a broken system that creates vast inequality is the only choice? Spain's amazing co-op is living proof otherwise

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jun/24/alternative-capitalism-mondragon

Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism -- by Richard Wolff
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhzBq15p_f0

Most Americans have never recovered from the recession of 2008 and the outsourcing, mechanizing, robotizing and computerizing of their jobs. Men’s salaries and working conditions have been deteriorating since the mid 1970s. Women’s salaries have increased to 77% of men’s low salaries. Americans are emotionally depressed. We consume 50% of the world’s psych meds and 80% of the world’s heroin. Suicides addiction obesity and other social ills have increased. Too many are in despair. This panel explains what happened, why it happened and what to do about it.
http://www.democracyatwork.info/

Trump deregulates Banks setting up US Economy to Fail again. Anti Dodd-Frank Executive Order puts nation at risk.

Dodd-Frank Financial Regulations Watered Down as Trump Signs Executive Orders.  President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday scaling back the sweeping 2010 Dodd-Frank financial regulatory framework enacted under his predecessor as a direct response to the financial crisis.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-signs-executive-orders-watering-down-dodd-frank-financial-regulations-n716481

The Dodd-Frank was designed to ensure that a financial crisis like that in 2008 won't happen again. As such, it sought to attack the principal problem that policymakers believed had caused the crisis in the first place -- the growth and proliferation of too-big-to-fail banks. [Motley Fool]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_Minsky
Hyman Philip Minsky (September 23, 1919 – October 24, 1996) was an American economist'
His research attempted to provide an understanding and explanation of the characteristics of financial crises, which he attributed to swings in a potentially fragile financial system. Minsky is sometimes described as a post-Keynesian economist because, in the Keynesian tradition, he supported some government intervention in financial markets, opposed some of the financial deregulation policies popular in the 1980s, stressed the importance of the Federal Reserve as a lender of last resort and argued against the over-accumulation of private debt in the financial markets.^[1]
Minsky's economic theories were largely ignored for decades, until the subprime mortgage crisis of 2008 caused a renewed interest in them.

https://www.amazon.com/Stabilizing-Unstable-Economy-Hyman-Minsky/dp/0071592997

Raise the Minimum Wage to $15 per hour.

Bubble Up Economics Works

Still nothing accomplished by the failed Trump Administration. When will he make America Great Again?

Sorry, Trump voters, he turned out to be no good... Remember that when enough people speak out against the madness, laws change... policy changes... wars end... That is the historical lesson of Vietnam... Due to public pressure, President Nixon ended the war. That is the historical lesson of Iraq... Due to public pressure, President Obama ended the Iraq War... That is the historical lesson of legalization of Marijuana in Colorado, Oregon, Nevada, California, Alaska and Washington State... The Voters Spoke...

WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 

Is it a good idea to "joke" about assassinating Republican Politicians? No. White Lives Matter Too.

Since we just had an angry voter try to kill Republican Congressmen at a baseball game practice we all ought to stop with the threats and the violence. There is a better way. Every two years we vote and in between we march in protest marches in the streets and in Senator's offices. Email your Senator... They actually employ college students to read the emails and get a general feeling for the voter's opinions. We are better than Italy during World War Two. We are better than Dallas in 1963... We can change the system peacefully... or maybe I'm wrong... The guillotine worked great in France in the 1700s... Off with their heads! No. I'll always be in favor of peaceful political change and NOW is the time to Impeach both Trump and Pence and put someone ELSE in charge. The Republicrimes have failed totally.

MSNBC's Chris Matthews Jokes About Wanting Trump To Kill Jared Kushner: "One Good Thing Mussolini Did Was Execute His Son-in-Law"

In just a few minutes on Thursday's edition of 'Hardball' on MSNBC, host Chris Matthews compared President Trump and his family to Saddam Hussein and his sons, the Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam, Italian fascist Benito Mussolini, and the deposed Russian royal family, the Romanovs.

Matthews wondered about the Trumps: "Is it a royal family instead of a Democratic or a Republican form of government? Or is it a family running the government? Is it Ivanka and Jared and the President sitting around in the White House upstairs ruling the world?"

“So the son-in-law — you know, one good thing Mussolini did was execute his son-in-law. I mean, I’m talking about Ciano,” he happily remembered.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/06/30/msnbcs_chris_matthews_jokes_about_wanting_trump_to_kill_jared_kushner_mussolini_executed_son-in-law.html

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

ON GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH TRY THE KEYWORD VANDERGREG

OR PURPLE64ETS

The NSA needs to FIX the Wannacry Ransomware problem. Imagine if Bank of America's computers all failed. It would be the end of days.

The ransomware hackers earned $10,000 from the attack in the Ukraine. That fact has got to inspire copycat criminals worldwide. What if we had ransomware attacks once every day?  Imagine if grocery store restocking systems failed... no food... what if banks failed... no money... It would be the end of western civilization with Billions of people starving to death... The only survivors would be rural subsistence farmers.

I oppose building "The Wall" prototypes near San Diego wasting $20 Million. The People of the USA will NEVER fund building the Mexico Wall ever.

We will be left with walls to nowhere. Permanent structures of Absurdist Sculpture that future generations can point to and laugh at how crazy we were. These prototypes will be the only structures built ever and a lasting insult to sanity.

Prototypes of what new sections of a wall on the Mexican border might look like should be completed by late summer, a Department of Homeland Security official said Tuesday.
Ronald Vitiello, acting deputy commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, said up to eight prototypes will be up by September so that DHS can decide which design is best for building hundreds of miles of new barrier along the border, as called for by President Trump.


http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/feds-hope-build-border-wall-prototypes-late-summer-n777346

Does Putin Own Trump? - Will he ask The Donald to jump like a good little boy at meeting next week?

Putin seems like he is a strong tough leader. A man that is not to be defied. Trump seems like a weak clown. Our country needs a man that can lead us and defend us against Russian control. Trump isn't it.


Insiders acutely aware of President Donald Trump’s complicated financial arrangements say he is billions of dollars in debt, much of it to Russia, and lives on the edge of financial ruin.
Besides Russia, Trump also owes at least $2 billion to a partnership that includes The Bank of China.
“Mr. Trump is in bed with Communists and enemies of America,” says one accountant who has worked on Trump’s partnerships but won’t allow use of his name.  “Russia owns him.”

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/64993

Is Trump too Mentally Ill to serve as Commander in Chief of a Nuclear Nation? Dem proposes panel to remove President if unfit to lead.

Pointing to the outcry over President Donald Trump's latest controversial tweets, freshman Rep. Jamie Raskin is urging his colleagues to get behind a bill that could potentially oust the President if he was mentally or physically unfit.

The Maryland Democrat wants to create an 11-member commission made up of mostly physicians and psychiatrists -- more formally called the "Oversight Commission on Presidential Capacity." The panel would carry out a medical examination and determine whether the President was physically or mentally able to do the job.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/30/politics/jamie-raskin-bill-panel-remove-donald-trump/index.html

Psychiatrists say Trump is mentally ill.

Negative responses and condemnation continue to rain down on President Donald Trump after his crude insults against “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski Thursday in two of his often acerbic tweets on Twitter.
“It is really not normal that the president of the United States and the commander-in-chief would be tweeting about somebody’s face,” says longtime Republican strategist Liz Mair.  “It does not conform to the normals that we expect and we treat as pretty set in stone in this country.  It is also strange.”

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/66910