Stimulus Sack

Bordeom consumes every fiber of my being. I'm trapped in a land of other people's boring ass video games and the Spanish channel. My friend's grandmother just goes to any place where there is two or more people in the house and yells at them in Spanish. I, unfortunately, happen to be around another person, so I get to listen to Screamfest 2009 en Espanol.

Why the fuck do people play Fable? From what I see I'd probably be in so much pain after an hour of gameplay that I'd be forced to pull one of my own teeth.

So in my overwhelming boredom, I will compose another post. Not like I have anything better to do. All my friends suck so I can't go and smoke some weed.......

And that brings me to my topic: Weed.

In this failing economy, one product continues to sell at breakneck speed- marijuana. And that must surely provide hope for our politicians, who are worrying themselves away with bailouts and stimulus plans, right?

Wrong. When Obama was presented with the question "Are you going to legalize pot?" he laughed. No words, no reply, just laughter. One of the biggest political questions in America and he felt it didn't even deserve a response.

For Christ's sake, it's not like we're trying to legalize heroin to make it available to children everywhere. And even if we were, our government has beat us to it: it's called Oxycontin.

I, however, have a brilliant idea. To make up for this nonsensical spending that the dear folks in Washington feel is necessary, legalize marijuana. Make it into a product that can be sold at any 7-Eleven nationwide to those 18 and older, and put a hefty tax on it like you do with liquor and tobacco. This tax will generate more money for our national budget, not to mention the money that we will be saving seeing as we don't have to worry about fighting the drug cartels that import weed into the country seeing as the legalization of weed will take their legs out from under them. I know it will work.

Why do I know it will work? Because it has in the past.

Up until the middle of the Great Depression, alcohol was illegal. This, my children, was called "Prohibition." It was terribly expensive and extremely risky for those who wanted alcohol to get a hold of it. Why? Because the only people with alcohol were the mafia. Our government was wasting countless money trying to keep alcohol illegal and off of the streets. Does this sound familiar?

But then along came my hero, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, with an ingenious idea. He realized that people like alcohol, and that they couldn't afford to spend money keeping it illegal with all of the other things required in the American budget. Thus, he repealed prohibition. And what happened shortly after that? America began to climb out of the depression.

I think it's time for Obama to realize that people like to smoke reefer. People always have liked to smoke and they always will, no matter what laws you make against it.

It's also time for Obama to realize that by continuing to keep marijuana illegal, he is putting power in the hands of the true criminals. The drug cartels, the mafia, the crooked and often prone to violence street dealer. If we legalize it, we can pump money into the economy, eliminate frivolous spending, drastically reduce violence on the streets, and keep the American people happy. Isn't this a win-win situation? Wake up, America.