By "Radical" Russ Belville on February 17, 2009
A Stasher wrote to me asking how he should respond when someone who knows you’re a stoner makes a smart-ass comment that denigrates your use of cannabis. The example would be if someone at your work or school or club said something like, “Hey, Russ, what are you gonna do this weekend, smoke a lot of pot and get high?”
Here’s one snappy answer to a stupid pot question I might throw down:
“No, actually I was going to write a paper this weekend on how the last five presidential elections have been won by a former pot smoker (Clinton, Clinton, Bush, Bush, Obama), and how in two of the last three elections, both major party candidates were former pot smokers (Bush/Gore, Bush/Kerry), and how the largest state in America and the largest city in America are run by former pot smokers (California’s Schwarzenegger and New York City’s Bloomberg).”
*with apologies to MAD Magazine
Posted in ACTIVISM, GOVERNMENT | Tagged Al Gore, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, John Kerry, Michael Bloomberg
I am the producer of The NORML Network, the host of the NORML SHOW LIVE and The NORML Stash Blog, and NORML's Outreach Coordinator. I'm married, live in Portland, Oregon, and I am a registered medical marijuana caregiver in this state. I've worked days as an IT geek and nights as a professional musician. Previously, I have been the host of my own political talk radio show on satellite radio. I've been the High Times "Freedom Fighter of the Month" and I travel across the country to educate people on marijuana reform. I've dedicated my life to bringing an end to adult marijuana prohibition and re-legalizing cannabis hemp, and I'm honored to be chosen by NORML to give voice to the Marijuana Nation and to speak for those who can't speak up.
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I understood and think it was clear, when people use the term largest city, state it is understand to mean largest budgets, population and only when one says geographically does the other come into play. Everybody around here says that Boston is the largest city in MA. Nobody is talking geographically.
You’re correct. I should’ve emphasized “population”, which I thought might be inferred by including New York City, which is certainly not very geographically large compared to, say, Houston or Phoenix or Las Vegas.
largest state is actually alaska…
ok =)
Sure there is! For example:
“How many letters are in the word ‘stupid’?”
See? A “stupid” question!
(I wasn’t saying your question was stupid, Rich, your teacher’s question was stupid.)
there’s no such thing as a stupid question.