A pot friendly book....for kids

[Queasy1]

It's just a plant

The holidays are over, but if you spaced on buying the budding reader in your life a present, Ricardo Cortes’s It’s Just a Plant is available on the Barnes & Noble Website this month. It’s the story of Jackie, a young girl who walks in on her parents smoking marijuana. The rest of the book follows a fact-finding mission Jackie and her mom take to learn more about pot. They visit Farmer Bob, who grows it, and Dr. Eden, her mom’s groovy physician (who warns the child not to use the drug till she’s an adult). Then they run into some guys passing around a spliff in front of a Chinese takeout joint, who are promptly busted. That’s when she learns that “a small but powerful group decided to make a law against marijuana” from one of the cops, who lets the tokers go with a warning. And Jackie decides she’s going to “vote to make the laws fair” when she grows up.

Words fail me at the moment

 

[CrimsonNan]

Queasy1 said:

Words fail me at the moment.

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Me too Queasss, which is quite an accomplishment for the two of us.
:biggrin:

Stop the world - I want to get off!!!

 

[It's On A Slab]

Good read on the history of marijuana laws....

It's just a plant


Words fail me at the moment

http://blogs.salon.com/0002762/stories/2003/12/22/whyIsMarijuanaIllegal.html

......the history of marijuana's criminalization is filled with:

*Racism
*Fear
*Protection of Corporate Profits
*Yellow Journalism
*Ignorant, Incompetent, and/or Corrupt Legislators
*Personal Career Advancement and Greed

 

[NYBamaFan]

......the history of marijuana's criminalization is filled with:
*Racism
*Fear
*Protection of Corporate Profits
*Yellow Journalism
*Ignorant, Incompetent, and/or Corrupt Legislators
*Personal Career Advancement and Greed

What about concern about the impact that this drug has on our children and our society? Doesn't that belong on your list somewhere?

 

[Pachydermatous]

Next month: My Little Basement Meth Lab.

It's part of the new totally free speech society; anybody can have a book published if he tries. Unfortunately, one can't have it both ways.The other way is censorship, or at least a social disapproval and crackdown.
Once a subject is off limits, then others may be proscribed. (How often have we heard that?) Any rules at all are regarded as tyranny -- if one is a true Libertarian.

I tried to explain this to a friend who collects girlie mags and porn tapes when he began protesting one day about today's child sex, homosexual child sex, weird sex crimes and generally widespread sex behavior. To this day he hasn't made the connection between his own acts and those he abhors.

 

[ValuJet]

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[It's On A Slab]

What about concern about the impact that this drug has on our children and our society? Doesn't that belong on your list somewhere?

Any more so than the laws forbiding alcohol and tobacco sales to minors?

Last time I watched pro sports, the beer companies pretty much owned the airwaves. (Well, the ad slots that weren't owned by Cialis, Viagra and Levitra.)

Tobacco is forbidden to minors, too. Yet, go to any teen gathering place and they somehow get a supply of cigs. If the alcohol laws were enforced, you wouldn't ever see an MIP arrest.

 

[NYBamaFan]

Come on - I mean, because we didn't get it ALL right doesn't mean that we didn't get anything right. MaryJane creates apathic students and is a huge stepping stone towards much more dangerous drugs.

The fact that we cannot get rid of every harmful substance should not deter us from getting rid of those that we can...

 

[92tide]

it would be a very interesting study to compare the apathy caused by surfing the internet or playing video games, or watching tv for that matter to that caused by smoking grass.

now if i can just put the bong down and get around to filling out those grad school applications

 

[It's On A Slab]

Come on - I mean, because we didn't get it ALL right doesn't mean that we didn't get anything right. MaryJane creates apathic students and is a huge stepping stone towards much more dangerous drugs.

The fact that we cannot get rid of every harmful substance should not deter us from getting rid of those that we can...

I understand your argument.

Though, I've always likened the "pot-leads-to-harder-drugs" analogy to alcohol:

If I drink a beer, does that mean that I"m going to go directly to grain alcohol? Possibly, if I have a genetic tendency toward alcohol addiction.

It (marijuana) leads to harder drugs because it is sold in the same environment (the unregulated...black market... the street) in which harder drugs are sold.

Our experience with alcohol prohibition should have taught us that prohibition of drugs only drives up the cost of them, where the risks of distribution of such are assumed by criminals.

 

[Queasy1]

Ok, we're missing the point here. This is a pro-marijuana book...aimed towards children! Would you write a pro-alcohol book for children? What about a pro-cigarette book for children?

Look at this illustration from the book. Dad is toking it up right there with mom and daughter and a happy rainbow in the background. Like I said in my original post....words fail me.

 

[wisten]

Aiming pot, booze, smokes, any of that to children is plain wrong.

How about a book telling kids how to smoke, sex it up, get stoned, and plan careful binge sessions and GET AWAY WITH IT.

It would be a best seller.

Why anyone would want to market such drivel to children is beyond me, but wait, here comes Mr. Spongebob Squarepants wanting to tell your sons and daughters about "Mr. Noodle"...

Sickening.