The pot rush is on....

        Doonesbury has been a hoot the past few weeks.
The slacker Zonker has moved to Colorado, where he plans to be a pot farmer.
This reflects real life.
In the small town where I live Jerry, a cattlemen who runs his herd on leased acreage, has been talking up plans for growing marijuana.
Another local, Tony, has offered to supply the seed and expertise if Jerry comes up with the land, water and work.
They mapped out their ambitious plans while other old timers watched them from the sidelines at the same table.
What is not known is how serious Jerry is.  In some ways he has a reputation to uphold. He used to be a banker, and still is in some offhand part-time way that is not fully explained but alluded to.
Tony is very serious.  He may or may not have been a player in the past. But he drives a nice looking truck, while Jerry continues to do his chores in older, beaten trucks because he says that is how cattlemen stay in business.  I am not sure about that.  If all cowmen drove just old battered trucks then how would Ford have come up with its King Ranch edition? But then, maybe just yuppies from the Silicon Valley who have hobby ranches buy those spiffed up trucks.
I would think that if Jerry were to become a big producer of pot, that he would have to drive a much nicer truck in line with his image.  The book Freakonomics has shown that most big city street dealers live with their mothers and don’t make much off drugs, while taking a lot of the risk.
But the people upstream, or downstream, depending on how you diagram it, have bling and the projection of wealth and power from their expertise in managing major distribution and or production enterprises.
I have often chided Jerry for not buying a new truck, for not helping Obama by stimulating the economy.  Jerry thinks that is what Democrats are for and Republicans are supposed to drive old vehicles and be very conservative and let someone else stimulate the economy, just so it is not the government.
Meanwhile, in Denver police expected up to 80,000 to show up at a pot smoke in at Denver’s Civic Park downtown.  There were some rumors of a shooting at the smoke in but I cannot confirm that since I could not access my free trial digital subscription of the Denver Post and I usually do not buy the Pueblo Chieftain because I generally boycott the mainstream news media for not reporting real news anymore.  It just regurgitates government handouts. Or tells us what Madonna or Justin Timberlake or Anne Hathaway are up to. Or lets us know about the latest attempts of an impoverished immigrant child to get free tuition as a reward for their parents breaking and entering into our country because the rich millionaires of Mexico refuse to tax themselves to provide opportunity and education for the Indian blooded Mexicans.  Because the Mexican rich think the disappearing American middle class should help support the less fortunate of foreign lands.
The huge mass of people who smoked pot show how well government policies are working.
In the prisons, administrators allow a steady slow stream of heroin and other drugs to flow in to sedate the prisoners and keep them under control.
In the same way, the powerful government institutions in the United States have allowed drugs to flow in to the nation to sedate the population, pacify them, and make sure they do not care how the nation is being ripped off and by whom.
When the banksters wrecked the western world by dumping non-existent mortgages onto unsuspecting sovereign funds and pension plans and widows who have orphans, the resulting collapse put up to a quarter of the U S work force out of work.
Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party movements draw a crowd in the low hundreds at best.
But the American libertarian right to dull one’s mind with pot can draw 80,000.
The government has won. The cartels have won. The banksters have won. Jerry and Tony think they will.
And of course the pot smokers of Colorado are celebrating because they have won too.
As for Colorado, it has lost.  It has shown that spectacular scenery and a vibrant performing arts culture and sometimes very successful professional sports teams are not enough.  The majority of Coloradoans need to drink and smoke marijuana to help them get through the boredom of post modern life in the Queen City of the western plains.
        People will bristle that marijuana does not kill brain cells, is healthy for you, is not addictive.
       But in Doonesbury Zonker is spacey, forgetful.
       A joke on Soda Head a few days ago was that someone drunk will drive through a stop sign. Someone stoned will stop at the sign and wait for it to turn green.
      A study claimed that kids who start smoking marijuana have less brain development.
      Yes, as I say, that is what the government wants.   Citizens who are less intelligent. Citizens who will mass together in the tens of thousands for the right to smoke pot. Citizens who will not mass in the tens of thousands to throw the bankster and government regulators in prison for derailing the western world economy with greed and unethical behavior.
      Many citizens now seem to welcome the more free time they have, the freedom from work. It gives them more time to smoke up and tune out.