In 1938 one of the most important influences in my life was discovered by Sandoz Pharmaceutical’s chemist Alfred Hoffman. On April 16, 1943 Mr Hoffman accidentally absorbed some through handling it and took that famous bicycle ride. LSD was off to a good start.
I have enjoyed this wonderful concoction many times over the years. By encouraging free thought it shaped the future of an entire generation. It was a blast at parties and concerts too. Wow!
Albert Hoffman died today at 102 years old. Thanks Al.
After my years growing up in a fundamentalist preachers home I had a lot of the Christian Bible shoved into my head. Stories and parables still haunt me to this day. Lots of legends passed down through the eons. I believed them as infallible until I realized that any traditional fable will get changed and re-interperted over the years as they are passed down from generation to generation.
One of my favorite was the story of Moses and the “Children Of Israel” wandering around in the wilderness for 40 years. Culminating at Mount Sinai with the tablets written by God, a commanding set of rules for mankind to live by, the journey is talked about to this day. I liked that the benevolent god would feed them every morning with food from heaven that was laying around when the sun came up. What a cool idea. Manna, just waiting to be picked up.
Over the years in my life I have harvested a lot of mushrooms from cow fields and pine forests. You know the kind. Natures acid. Fun stuff….most of the time. The best time to pick is early morning, just after the sun warms the earth enough for the fungus to start expanding. Where there was nothing the night before a big fluffy shroom would appear.
No wonder the folks wandered around for 4 decades. Hallucinogenics are confusing to those who ingest them. If they can help make a person think they should follow a band, like the Grateful Dead, around the world in todays time searching for that perfect “Promised Land” or “Dark Star” like I did. I’m sure that those on an ancient quest for the promised land had more than one trippy experience that led them to strange paths that they got lost on as well. But that was just my uneducated theory, until today when I found out that Moses could have been tripping when he climbed the mountain and “talked to God”.
I felt like hell yesterday. I actually wished I had a pain pill. Oh yeah, I had a couple of bowls of weed, but thats not enough sometimes. But I’m honest about it. Unlike Nancy Reagan I have never even tried to say no to drugs.
I have my limits and don’t take the opiates anymore as I don’t want to become a “junkie” again. Withdrawals from Oxycodone and morphine were hell and I choose not to poison my body with liver damaging drugs. But pain can make you long for relief and sometimes a knockout drug can bring just that. Knocked out relief.
I am hoping, in the darkest recesses of my soul, that the evil bitch who promoted the “Just Say No” campaign from the White House in the ’80’s is suffering greatly from her fall on Sunday. At 86 Nancy may not even remember the hate campaign that our taxpayers over-funded and she yammered on about. In doing so, she set the re-legalization or decriminalization of marijuana back many years. Stopped progress of medical marijuana education, legalization and acceptance by our society. She also helped her senile husband, the Bush puppet Ronnie, declare war on his own people and say the war was on drugs.
The “War On Drugs” has cost the American taxpayer billions over the years. Many lives have been messed up after arrests of marijuana. In some places possession of even a small amount of the plant can catch someone a long prison sentence so the lives of their family, friends along with their own are messed up for a long time. Seizure of property is making the cops richer. Extra money has been put into drug task forces for local and state law enforcement agencies, special “drug court” in some states and the massive expansions of our penal system are results of this womans horrible anti-drug high horse she shouted hate from.
But now she is in a place where the drugs are necessary. Drugs from Big Pharm of course. The people who lobby and help fund anti-marijuana propaganda. The corporations who backed her “Just Say No” bullshit when she lived in Washington, D.C.. To relieve the pain she relied on her old money buddies.
Ryan Newman took the 50th Daytona 500 winning the race that starts off the seasons 36 races. My Sundays will be taken up by watching the big shots in the NASCAR world going around in circles. I like following the Cup races that are televised but I miss living close enough to a local track that I can watch the minor league racers ride around in the dirt. The closest track to Roswell is in Carlsbad, about 75 miles south of here.
The dirt track in Baker, Louisiana was where I spent many a Saturday night. I got to know a few of the drivers who raced there and watched a couple of them scramble up the ranks, one who made it to the Busch Cup league. The story of Fred ended before his first nationally televised race. Dumbass pee’d dirty with cocaine the day before his debut race.
I don’t consider it a waste of time or effort to try to keep up with the races. It makes me happy and even excites me when Kevin Harvick does well with strategy and speed. It gives me a chance to be in the drivers seat for a few hours a week. And I really miss driving.
So my Sunday afternoons will be taken up for the rest of the year. Then after the last race in November you will probably hear me whining about no racing “til February. But I’ll be having fun.
First off, wintertime is a good time to cook goodies. The oven heats the house nicely and many memories of gramma’s house come wafting via the smells of chocolate, cinnamon or fruit. So many recipes that taste good can also be medicine. If the ingredients are right.
I advocate the use of marijuana for medicine. Especially if your doctor says so. Smoking isn’t always feasible so when its time for you to take your meds eating it can be a good option. It can be eaten many ways but making butter is the most versatile. It can be used to cook with, spread on toast and drizzled over popcorn.
I have used butter for years in making brownies that seem to be a hit at parties. After my injury in September of 2000 I supplemented the pig drugs the doctors pushed with weed. Mostly smoking but often with food. The butter is a great way to get through the day because eating it gives a body high as well as the good head.
When cooking it is important to remember not to eat too much until you know how you react to the potency. Also it takes more time to effect you than when you smoke so be aware that you don’t eat more than a little and wait about 45 minutes to an hour before you eat more. Never eat a lot if you have something to do later. It might not ever get done.
I mix the butter in any recepie that calls for butter, vegetable oil or margarine. I substitute the oil with melted butter and cakes, brownies and other things come out fine. It is good with salad dressings that use oil. It is good on pancakes and biscuits. heck, it’s good everywhere.
Pot is a fat soluable drug that bonds well with the fats in butter. It can be used in vegetable oils and margerine but doesn’t do well in fat free types of spreads.
Here’s how I make it;
Slowly melt a pound of butter in a nonstick pan over a low heat. Stir it often to prevent scorching.
Take an ounce of good buds and/or leaf. save your sticks and seeds as they also have THC and oils in them that contain other cannibinoids. Grind the weed into a fine powder in a coffee grinder sticks seeds and all.
When the butter is melted stir the powder in. Over a low heat simmer the mixture for at least a half hour stirring often. Longer is much better and you can see the mixture go from yellow to green to an almost black/green. Thats when it is best.
Remove from heat source and let cool. This next step involves handling it and it WILL BE HOT!!! so WAIT TIL IT COOLS TO PROCEED!!!!!!
Place a piece of cheese cloth in a bowl. WHEN THE MIXTURE IS COOLED pour the butter into the bowl. carefully lift the corners of the cloth to form a “Bag” to keep the powder in. Squeeze and resqueeze the cloth straining the butter into the bowl while keeping the powder in the cloth. Throw the greasy cloth and powder away.
Refrigerate the butter. melting small portions for use in recipes or soften it for spreading.
I will post good recipes and tips in the days to come.
Get the butter ready and check back soon. If you just can’t wait go get your favorite brownie mix that uses oil and substitute the amount of oil with the butter.
Since the propaganda of the early thirties caused most Americans to judge marijuana poorly the big pharmaceutical companies have kept those attitudes going. Between the smear campaigns and the hyping of their pills they have been a major force in the disinformation pumped into the publics heads. Along with the government and other corporate influence they have lied about the danger supposedly caused by using mother natures herbs, including marijuana.
Pot has been used as a medicine and intoxicant for thousands of years. When it became outlawed in the U S there were still quite a few users. Some still recognized its therapeutic values but a bunch of them just wanted the buzz. Alcohol is legal but it isn’t everyones choice when it comes down to how they want to party. Weed is a much mellower high and you usually don’t have vomiting or hangovers after smoking a lot of bud. People don’t overdose and die with the natural, unprocessed plant. At most a user sleeps a long time and might miss work or class. While not the best scenario at least they didn’t die. Alcohol poisoning and health problems caused by alcohol kill thousands of people last year. Not 1 recorded death caused by using weed.
In the late 1970’s people started questioning the illegality of a plant much louder. With it’s popularity rising in the ’60’s everyone could see the lies being forced down their throats. Studies were showing the benefits outweighed the risks in treating disease and the side effects of medical treatments. Besides when folks get stoned they are much less likely to fight, crash their cars or become a nusiance. Not so with alcohol.
Big Pharm saw the threat to their drugs which included tranquilizers, anti psycotics and even down to over the counter stomache remedies. If marijuana becomes an acceptible medicine many dollars would be lost for them. So in their interest they fund programs to misinform the public about weed. Ironically a big part of the funding for Partnership For A Drug Free America comes from drug companies. Bill Mahr once said that if they could figure out a way to put Pfizer on every leaf weed would become legal in an instant.
Big money is made in other industries as well. The most frightening of these businesses are the rehab industries and the prison systems. Prison systems? Yes. Most states are privatizing their penal systems and the companies that run the new joints make their money from full beds. The taxpayers are still footing the bill but it’s the corporations who profit. Keeping marijuana in a bad light is keeping the cells full.
Over 6 million people have been arrested in the United States since 1990 for marijuana charges. In some states possession is a misdemeanor ticket but in others having a joint will get you 15 or more years. Alabama has a 10 to 15 year sentence for first offense possession. They have also begun privatizing their prisons. That makes the resistance to changing the laws more understandable. Money talks and bull…well, makes more money.
It is time the American people wake up and demand the truth. Truth has been disguized as fiction and lies have become truth for too many years. Too much like Orwell for me.
Alien Trucker
April 30th, 2008 by Rocky 
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