Wednesday, December 28, 2016

No More Midnight Toker


Although my days of toking and boozing are long over I am fascinated by this whole legal Recreational Cannabis industry. On our recon patrols for the perfect RV site for the Summer we see the retail shops, the billboards and pamphlets in the tourist racks at truck stops. Hell, in one truck stop there was a Starbucks, Cinnabun, Subway and then right there in plain sight you have the Sweetleaf  cannabis shop with neon signs and daily specials on a board hanging over the counter. The aroma of the fresh herb is thick in the air.

Now, don’t get me wrong I’m no prude and I’ve done plenty of my share, but I came from a time when it wasn’t legal, in fact it was so dangerous that I have had clients who served hard time for an ounce of weed. Recently, before leaving Nashville for the Northwest I understand that the Nashville Council reduced penalties to the sons and daughters of white families, and they think that in the next ten years they will extend that same courtesy to blacks.

I don’t know if I could even tell you of my experiences in the legal/penal systems of the South. Think about it, an 18 year-old from some shithole town in North East Arkansas, not much education and no worldly experience, pulls a five year stretch in the ADC at Tucker Farm for having a half ounce bag of pot. My experiences were frightening and often other worldly. That’s the world that I grew up in so this industry is such a jolt.

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The next few years will be interesting if we get this Trump AG Jeff Sessions from Alabama where one could get a life term for possession. Jeff Boy says that this industry is going to be shut down because, “…good people don’t smoke that stuff.”

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