We get's no love down south, and we need it. A few night's ago I came home at around two o'clock in the morning shortly followed by the police. luckily they weren't beating my door down, but my neighbors weren't so lucky. At two o'clock in the morning cops came, claiming to have search warrant, and beat on the door of my Latin neighbors waking their kids, scaring a grandmother, and waking all of us who share this apartment building,and for what? to give a citation. nothing was found, no evidence was found, no one went to jail, ( i know all of this because the officers had to speak loudly and clearly so that the grandmother could understand why she was up at two o'clock in the morning). The accused got a citation from word of mouth. I know that there are cases where people are treated far more unjustly than this, but as it stands now I can no longer talk to my neighbors due to the fear of cannabis consumption. I repeat, I can no longer talk to the people that live next to me, who I share a washer and dryer with, who i share a building with, and who I share my home with, because there may be cannabis present.
Down here in the Bible Belt we love our cannabis. The mountains of North Carolina produce some of the best! But we are far behind these pot initiatives. There was a bill to legalize medicinal marijuana for the sickness of patients under the most stringent guidelines, and it failed in the North Carolina House of Representatives. News of the bill was kept quite before hand, and news of its failure was only determined through the process of elimination.
I get my cannabis news from 420 Magazine on a regular basis and the only southern state I really hear about is Florida. And as most southerners know, Florida really doesn't count. Not as a southern state anyway. But I do not blame the magazine, I blame us. We are Americans, and as the studies show we've probably consumed cannabis. But we don't speak up for our rights. We live in fear, below the Bible Belt, and that needs to change. So I shall start.
My name is Eric Fitzgerald Colvin II. I am an unrepentant cannabis user, and I am proud. Who wants to speak up with me? I no longer live in fear (and as a black man, that's saying something). I no longer fear their unjust policies. I no longer fear the ridicule. I want to stand for something much bigger than myself. I want patients to get their medicine, and I want honest people out of our prison system.
So, how many of those being whipped by the Bible Belt right now will speak up with me? Post your love, post your stories, become my neighbor, and we shall talk of great things, of a better world, of politics. Who will stand with me? Who will help me shut the west coast up and let the world know that we get stoned in the south too.
Peace and Love
~Choji
Down here in the Bible Belt we love our cannabis. The mountains of North Carolina produce some of the best! But we are far behind these pot initiatives. There was a bill to legalize medicinal marijuana for the sickness of patients under the most stringent guidelines, and it failed in the North Carolina House of Representatives. News of the bill was kept quite before hand, and news of its failure was only determined through the process of elimination.
I get my cannabis news from 420 Magazine on a regular basis and the only southern state I really hear about is Florida. And as most southerners know, Florida really doesn't count. Not as a southern state anyway. But I do not blame the magazine, I blame us. We are Americans, and as the studies show we've probably consumed cannabis. But we don't speak up for our rights. We live in fear, below the Bible Belt, and that needs to change. So I shall start.
My name is Eric Fitzgerald Colvin II. I am an unrepentant cannabis user, and I am proud. Who wants to speak up with me? I no longer live in fear (and as a black man, that's saying something). I no longer fear their unjust policies. I no longer fear the ridicule. I want to stand for something much bigger than myself. I want patients to get their medicine, and I want honest people out of our prison system.
So, how many of those being whipped by the Bible Belt right now will speak up with me? Post your love, post your stories, become my neighbor, and we shall talk of great things, of a better world, of politics. Who will stand with me? Who will help me shut the west coast up and let the world know that we get stoned in the south too.
Peace and Love
~Choji
for the rant.
Well am glad u have seen our back wards ways an in time mayb after all those old asses get from congress we shall over come.U say u r a black man well i'm a long haired hippy(waist length )that gets treated 2nd class always when popo come's around an f**k's with us for some smell.So now i live way out of any loop an wait for the change to even b listened t
ur thoughts need to b seen an laws changed.SOON!
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