Happy 4/20 to all who celebrate. I prefer weed to alcohol and haven’t drank in over ten years. If you are new to using cannabis, please be careful and try it in small amounts. Always check the packaging for dosage amounts if you are eating an edible.
For all the cannabis farmers out there- please do not use pesticides or herbicides on your plants or farm. Native plants and promoting a thriving native habitat for birds and insects, can help rid those issues without resorting to deadly toxins.
No one should ever go to jail on a charge for marijuana. Decriminalize cannabis federally. It is a law meant to oppress and jail more people. The fact that so many states have allowed marijuana use and the federal government still has not, shows how broken and backwards our system really is.
Now, fill up that bong and start puffing, light your joint, heat up that hookah, or pop that edible, and let’s discuss this deplorable spending bill that the House of Representatives just approved.
The US House passed a huge aid package, part of which is to fund Israel’s genocide of Gaza. It still has to pass the Senate, but it more than likely will pass. When I say that they all must be voted out of office, this is what I mean. This is US taxpayers hard earned dollars being spent on war and death. 26 billion dollars! That money could be used for Americans and for countries who need aid like Sudan, DRC, and Haiti. The majority of Americans do not want funding to go to Israel’s war. Even with multiple reports being ignored that Israel is breaking international law and committing war crimes and genocide, these US elected officials are choosing to silence Americans who put them in office, and give our money to a country that is breaking international law.
And these same elected officials have an expectation from Americans to follow the letter of the law when these representatives do not follow it and they offer our taxpayer dollars to a country who blatantly flouts international law? Why should any American follow the law under these pretexts? Either everyone follows the law or no one does, and we’re moving toward the latter.
The entire government needs to be overhauled. We need the power to be in the hands of the people. Our democratic system has to change.
Before anyone starts thinking, “Ah, Maria is smoking a bit too much,” I assure you that this is not an errant high rant. The House also passed the expansion of warrantless spying, which I mentioned in a previous post. The House also passed the TikTok ban. In one fail swoop, the House took a massive swipe out our civil rights. The hits will keep on coming with the same parties and people in power.
It has to change or everything will begin to fail. It is already failing, which is why those in power are constantly attacking our rights. They know that in order to retain power, they have to restrict ours.
We can’t let that happen.
We do have power. One of those powers is to vote all of these people out of office because they are a threat to our rights.
We do have power. One of those powers is to protest peacefully and no one should be arrested over voicing their protest. Those elected officials can protect and strengthen those rights, but they either support protesters being jailed for wanting an end to Israel’s genocide, or they are inactive and feign concern when they could very well write legislation to protect students across the US.
It’s always bitterly funny to hear a politician demand change but do nothing to progress that change. Why even express it if nothing is done? Do something more than accepting donations from tainted PACs and donors and selling your allegiance to moneyed interests over the people who have hope for change.
Do elected officials not realize that we need them to do the job that they were elected for?
There is a huge disconnect between politicians and the people. They act like as if in a monarchy and we are but the peasants and plebeians. So we must show them who has the power. The power is in the people and not them. Let’s get them all out of office and restructure our system so that these abuses of power are rectified and the balance restored where it always should have been, in the many and not the few.
Something to think about is how Iran
From the river to the sea, may Palestine be free. May the whole world be free.
Protest
Vote 3rd party
Disrupt everything
BE UNGOVERNABLE
Boycott
Donate
Demand sanctions and embargoes for Israel, US, UK, Germany, France, Australia, UAE, Russia, RSF, SAF, M23, and Rwanda.
Please extend your energy to other countries and people facing atrocities and genocide in Palestine, Sudan, DRC, West Papua, the Rohingyas, Armenians, and the Uyghurs.
Articles for reference. Please read and share.
NBC: House asses critical aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan along with TikTok ban