Around here, it's... Get there. Have you been there lately? Are ya stopping by, there? Are you there? Hey, whatcha got there, lol? Gee, I sure wish I was there. Finally (and inspired by):
"A Passage To Bangkok"
Our first stop is in Bogota
To check Colombian fields
The natives smile and pass along
A sample of their yield
Sweet Jamaican pipe dreams
Golden Acapulco nights
Then Morocco, and the East
Fly by morning light
[Chorus:]
We're on the train to Bangkok
Aboard the Thailand Express
We'll hit the stops along the way
We only stop for the best
Wreathed in smoke in Lebanon
We burn the midnight oil
The fragrance of Afghanistan
Rewards a long day's toil
Pulling into Katmandu
Smoke rings fill the air
Perfumed by a Nepal night
The Express gets you there
[Chorus]
...from the Rush album,
2112, way back in 1976.
Might have been easier when everyone smoked (cigarettes). But we're dying off and not being replaced in the same numbers. I sometimes think that half the resistance from those who've never consumed cannabis is because most people think of it being smoked. The spread of edibles... Seems like a lot of the stories in national media are negative. Looks like something a kid might eat, they say. Well... yeah, why make something look/smell like dogsh!t :rolleyes3 ? Life isn't a Cheech & Chong movie. Besides, the LD50 on cannabis is surely high enough that a kid would have to fill his stomach to end up doing more than fall asleep after a few fits of giggling and, perhaps, chasing the cannabis edible with everything
else that happens to be edible. Explaining to people that they can make their own cannabis butter and use it just like err...
square butter. That doesn't seem to have gotten any negative slant in the news. Oh, well, at least
some people have given up on calling cannabis a "gateway drug." That always sent me over the edge, too. They
prescribe cannabis to recovering drug addicts in the Netherlands. As far as that goes, I might not have quit drinking (et cetera :
: ) without a little cannabis to get me through the occasional... rough patch when doing so.