The Declaration of Independence (Drug War Revision)
Friday, July 4th, 2008 at 1:21 pm | By: Radical Russ
Eleven score and a dozen years ago the United States of America began with the Declaration of Independence. There will be much reflection on our founding document today. Our Founders pledged their lives to stand up for their natural rights and fight together against the tyranny of an oppressive and unresponsive government.
As a proud American freedom fighter against the drug war, I pledge the same.
Scribbling with quill and ink on parchment*, Thomas Jefferson, a slave-owning hemp farmer, wrote these ironic words:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
Though it would take a century to end the slavery and another century to recognize fully the legal equality of most men and women, we still fall short of the ideal. The drug war disproportionately arrests, incarcerates, and disenfranchises African-Americans and Hispanics. And all drug users of any ethnicity are chattel in the modern slavery – for-profit prison labor. All men are created equal, but afterward their urine can be tainted, and those men need not be treated equally by government or in commerce.
…that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Unless your pursuit of Happiness involves personal use of certain mind-altering substances and unless your Life depends on the use of medical marijuana. Then you are going to lose your Liberty.
Read the rest of this entry by clicking here
Related posts
sounds like time for some 
mountain time wake n bake 
don't forget to watch CCS live on u-stream 8 pm west 
Fresh Stash V RSS Feed
Loading ...
, or can...
