>> April 20, a day of peace, happiness and paranoia.
>>
>> Did I ever dream in 1972 that one day there would be a holiday
>> celebrating pot smoking?
>>
>> Did I ever dream in 1972 that 35 years in the future a middle-aged
>> version of myself would still be driving around town smoking pot from
>> a sneak-a-toke while keeping an eye open for the cops?
>>
>> I'll give you a clue. In 1969 a movie came out called "2001: A Space
>> Odsessy" It was all about how in the 21 Century you would be able to
>> travel to the Moon and have groovy vacuum tube computers at your
>> disposal. The future looked great in an Op-Art kind of way and
>> presumably ... I though .... pot would be legal by then, as well as
>> L.S.D. and other groovy drugs.
>> I knew I would be a middle-aged man in the year 2001, but legal drugs,
>> computers, and space travel seemed a pretty good payoff for the years
>> I would be investing to get there.
>>
>> Seems like I was watching the wrong movie. The next year, in 1969, a
>> movie came out called "A Clockwork Orange".
>> In the 21 Century there is no space travel, no pretty future. Just
>> grim paranoia in which an old homeless man gets beat to death in a
>> tunnel by a gang of ungrateful hooligans.
>>
>> The "pot holiday" I never dreamed of in 1972 is also a day for
>> psychopath students to take out their rage and anger on humanity.
>>
>> So now, in 2007, not only do I have to watch out for cops, nazis, and
>> trenchcoat wearing kids packing guns, but pot STILL isn't legal!!!!
>>
>> Some holiday.
>>
>> Some future.
>>
>> "Hey, pass that pipe, willya, and quit using it as a microphone!"
>>
>> namaste;
>> bodhi
>>
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