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From these comments Shankara recognized that the beggar was none other than the great God Shiva. He replied, saying “any one who convinces himself that he is that very essence, that witnesser of all things, which is manifest in all conditions and in all objects, from the highest God to the tiniest insect, is an enlightened one and a teacher regardless of his social standing. It is due to ignorance and illusion that men believe the universe to consist of different things, but anyone who in contemplation of the absolute realizes its identity with himself is a great master. Indeed, the entire universe is transitory, but the man who follows the innate direction of humanity in meditating constantly on the infinite and supreme being will cleanse his imperfections in sacred fire. That man realizes within himself the truth and quality of the supreme being, which in the uncontemplative man is hidden by ignorance as the sun is hidden by clouds. Indeed, I am convinced that the man who has his mind fixed always upon that great being worshipped even by the Gods and is thus at peace with himself has not only understood the supreme being, but in fact is that very same. Thus, Lord, in body I am your servant. In life, I am a part of your self. In soul, you are within me and within every other.”

]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/11780524/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/11780524/ Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:33:22 PST
The new findings "were against our expectations," said Dr. Donald Tashkin, a UCLA pulmonologist who has studied marijuana for 30 years.

"We hypothesized that there would be a positive association between marijuana use and lung cancer and that the association would be more positive with heavier use," he said. "What we found instead was no association at all, and even a suggestion of some protective effect."

Federal health and drug enforcement officials have widely used Tashkin's previous work on marijuana to make the case that the drug is dangerous. Tashkin said that while he still believes marijuana is potentially harmful, its cancer-causing effects appear to be of less concern than previously thought.

Earlier work established that marijuana does contain cancer-causing chemicals as potentially harmful as those in tobacco, he said. However, marijuana also contains the chemical THC, which he said may kill aging cells and keep them from becoming cancerous.

Tashkin's study, funded by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Drug Abuse, involved 1,200 people in Los Angeles who had lung, neck or head cancer and an additional 1,040 people without cancer matched by age, sex and neighborhood.

They were all asked about their lifetime use of marijuana, tobacco and alcohol. The heaviest marijuana smokers had lit up more than 22,000 times, while moderately heavy usage was defined as smoking 11,000 to 22,000 marijuana cigarettes. Tashkin found that even the very heavy marijuana smokers showed no increased incidence of the three cancers studied.

"This is the largest case-control study ever done, and everyone had to fill out a very extensive questionnaire about marijuana use," he said. "Bias can creep into any research, but we controlled for as many confounding factors as we could, and so I believe these results have real meaning."

Tashkin's group at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA had hypothesized that marijuana would raise the risk of cancer on the basis of earlier small human studies, lab studies of animals and the fact that marijuana users inhale more deeply and generally hold smoke in their lungs longer than tobacco smokers -- exposing them to the dangerous chemicals for a longer time. In addition, Tashkin said, previous studies found that marijuana tar has 50 percent higher concentrations of chemicals linked to cancer than tobacco cigarette tar.

While no association between marijuana smoking and cancer was found, the study findings, presented to the American Thoracic Society International Conference this week, did find a 20-fold increase in lung cancer among people who smoked two or more packs of cigarettes a day.

The study was limited to people younger than 60 because those older than that were generally not exposed to marijuana use in their youth, when it is most frequently tried.

]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/11454113/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/11454113/ Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:24:50 PST

Religion...religion has always been splintered into innumerable groups. In fact, there are as many varieties of religious belief as there are people who believe. The violence and disputation associated with religion stems from peoples' fundamental inability to see past each others' differences and truly understand others' feelings, thoughts, and beliefs.

As Aldous Huxley wrote, "We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies—all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes."

The growing self-insularity of people in this modern age means that we understand each other less and less, we divide ourselves up into more and more factions over semantics, misunderstandings and foolish disagrements which have no real existence. Given the spiritual and metaphysical substance of religion, it is easier to see this fact with regards to religion, but it also holds true for every other area of life. One must realize that truth can only be determined by looking inwards, through the lens of one's self, the only lens through which ayone can perceive the world. Through meditation and yogic techniques one can improve the clarity of this lens, reduce the psychologically harmful effects of self-insularity, and come to a better realization and understanding of the world and other people as they are within themselves.

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I'm the black shape that you can kindof see lighting the shit and getting out of the way of the explosion

]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/10963569/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/10963569/ Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:29:22 PST It was like a magical joint, that could only be seen by people who've had a certain number of drinks, and then suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Seriously this thing was like the length of my hand! This incredible situation really just took my breath away, what with the unlimited free booze, free cab fare, and then suddenly, free giant doobie! Fucking amazing.

]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/10029572/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/10029572/ Sun, 10 Sep 2006 14:36:59 PDT ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/9307958/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/9307958/ Sat, 08 Jul 2006 01:21:49 PDT
Anyways the important part is I went into the New Amsterdam Cafe, those of y'all who don't know, it's this cafe where they let you just sit there and smoke dope, and it's the trippiest place ever. I can seriously say, in 100 percent honesty, that was the best place I've been in my life. Better than the real Amsterdam, better than Paris, better than Cancun or La Jolla or any of that shit. The New Amsterdam Cafe is my paradise.

Unfortunately I could not remain there long, there was some sort of fucking punk show I had to go to...Mindless Self Indulgence. I dunno what these guys' deal is. They just insult their audience a bunch and play some decent-ish metal punk shit. Anyways I tried to get up on stage and punch the lead singer but security was on to me and chased me off. So I just fought a bunch of punk kids and caused a ruckus in the mosh pit. All in all it was a real wierd time, lots like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas...a crazy journey on drugs to see some shit that never really went anywhere, but ended up being just a ridiculous fucked-up experience. I mean, half the kids I went over with got wacked on drugs and took off, never to be heard from again. That's how you tell a good time. ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/8947470/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/8947470/ Fri, 02 Jun 2006 06:04:19 PDT
"I spent like an hour or two reading my whole gallery again, I forgot how excellent it was At any rate, I'm not sure what happened to all my peeps, did y'all leave when I stopped writing anything, anything at all? Did you take the same road out of town as the lovely Ms. Inspiration?

I plan, when I find the time, to write a summary and explanation/critique of each of my literary pieces, you know, well, only the good ones, and put them into context, explain some symbols and motifs and such, have a bit of an exposition, know what I'm saying? And the purpose of this right here is to guage interest, to see if anyone still gives two shits or if, when I do it, it will be solely for my own amusement and to maintain the status of this as the best gallery of literature to be found on the lameness that is deviantART."

Well I've started to develop the exposition of my work, and it goes in cronological order from my first submission of poetry here. It's interesting shit to me. Maybe it will be to you too, if you actually are around here. So check it out, it's "Peacefroggie's Excellent Poetry Exposition!" and it starts here!

[link] ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/8927477/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/8927477/ Wed, 31 May 2006 06:11:02 PDT
Anyways the reason for this rambling: I spent like an hour or two reading my whole gallery again, I forgot how excellent it was At any rate, I'm not sure what happened to all my peeps, did y'all leave when I stopped writing anything, anything at all? Did you take the same road out of town as the lovely Ms. Inspiration?

I plan, when I find the time, to write a summary and explanation/critique of each of my literary pieces, you know, well, only the good ones, and put them into context, explain some symbols and motifs and such, have a bit of an exposition, know what I'm saying? And the purpose of this right here is to guage interest, to see if anyone still gives two shits or if, when I do it, it will be solely for my own amusement and to maintain the status of this as the best gallery of literature to be found on the lameness that is deviantART.

Also kids, if you come to this page, you ought to know I now run or help to run and two excellent clubs. So if somehow you ended up here without first going there, go there, then come back here. Then see how long you can stand on one foot in the same place. ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/8257647/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/8257647/ Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:34:53 PST
This will drive up the dealers' profits, and therefore drive up the competition, which will inevitably lead to more gun-violence, more robberies, and more ruined properties.

Even putting more police on the streets will have little to no effect, since police can catch barely a fifth of the growers and dealers as it is.

Even if we catch three times as many, there will always be a long line of guys waiting to fill every one of these vacancies. Why? Because prohibition makes pot valuable!

There are already more than 600,000 Canadians with criminal records for drug offences, and the Tories would like to raise that number to three million.

That will certainly help the contractors who build and maintain prisons.

The Tories also want to continue pressing charges for simple possession, even on teens.

This will dramatically reduce their ability to get into good schools, get good jobs, travel, and maximize their earning potential. This hurts all Canadians.

Then, the taxpayers will have to pay billions more -- every single year -- to arrest, hold, prosecute, and incarcerate these people in yet-to-be-built multi-billion-dollar prisons.

Harper's policy will also increase the danger to the estimated one million Canadians who use marijuana for medical purposes.

Health Canada's fiasco of a Medical Marijuana Licensing program will likely be shut down, or revamped to make access even more difficult for these sick and dying Canadians, adding even more strain to our health care system.

On the other hand, regulating marijuana like alcohol would generate an estimated $3 billion in annual tax revenue, settle the medical marijuana issue once and for all, and reduce children's access to marijuana.

It would also offer quality-controls, reduce criminal profits, reduce gun-violence, and save Canadian taxpayers an additional $2 billion in annual costs for enforcement, prosecution, home insurance, stolen hydro, and corrections.

Prohibition is a cancer eating away at our society. It subsidizes organized crime, corrupts government and police, costs taxpayers a fortune, is totally ineffective and endangers our children by making pot more accessible than alcohol or tobacco.

Prohibition is the disease, and regulation is the cure. But with these rightwing ideologues in Parliament standing in the way of sensible drug policy, it will likely be a while before we are free of this cancer.

Taking the marijuana business out of the hands of teens and criminals and putting it into the hands of responsible adults is Socially Conservative. Generating tax revenue from that industry is Fiscally Conservative, and using that money to teach kids why they should avoid drugs is Morally Conservative.

But this so-called "conservative" government would like to leave marijuana in the control of gangsters and build several new expensive jails instead.

The whole thing leads me to wonder just which side of the law these socalled "Conservatives" are really on." ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/8023968/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/8023968/ Tue, 28 Feb 2006 01:44:46 PST ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/7849631/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/7849631/ Thu, 09 Feb 2006 18:23:18 PST
"O Lord of the universe, I see in Your universal body many, many forms--bellies, mouths, eyes--expanded without limit. There is no end, there is no beginning, and there is no middle to all this. Your form, adorned with various crowns, clubs and discs, is difficult to see because of its glaring effulgence, which is fiery and immeasurable like the sun. You are the supreme primal objective; You are the best in all the universes; You are inexhaustible, and You are the oldest; You are the maintainer of religion, the eternal Personality of Godhead.

You are the origin without beginning, middle or end. You have numberless arms, and the sun and moon are among Your great unlimited eyes. By Your own radiance You are heating this entire universe. Although You are one, You are spread throughout the sky and the planets and all space between. O great one, as I behold this terrible form, I see that all the planetary systems are perplexed. O mighty-armed one, all the planets with their demigods are disturbed at seeing Your many faces, eyes, arms, bellies and legs and Your terrible teeth, and as they are disturbed, so am I.

O all-pervading One, I can no longer maintain my equilibrium. Seeing Your radiant colors fill the skies and beholding Your eyes and mouths, I am afraid. O Lord of lords, O refuge of the worlds, please be gracious to me. I cannot keep my balance seeing thus Your blazing deathlike faces and awful teeth. In all directions I am bewildered. All the peoples of the worlds are rushing into Your mouths, their heads smashed by Your fearful teeth. I see that some are being crushed between Your teeth as well.

As the rivers flow into the sea, so all these great warriors enter Your blazing mouths and perish. I see all people rushing with full speed into Your mouths as moths dash into a blazing fire. I see You devouring all people in Your flaming mouths and covering the universe with Your immeasurable rays. Scorching the worlds, You are manifest. O Lord of lords, so fierce of form, please tell me who You are. I offer my obeisances unto You; please be gracious to me. I do not know what Your mission is, and I desire to hear of it.

The Blessed Lord said: 'Time I am, destroyer of the worlds, and I have come to engage all people.'" ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/7538431/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/7538431/ Sat, 07 Jan 2006 18:52:09 PST
Ooh, a couple of first-quarter fuckups, turnovers, and my Bucs just couldn't bring it back, tough game. I couldn't believe it when Sheperd dropped the pass in the endzone at the end, that was the game right there, that was what did it. Fuckin Redskins, oooh. Okay, but Seattle's got it in the bag now, they'll take care of those Washington sons of bitches alright, we'll see. ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/7014922/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/7014922/ Fri, 11 Nov 2005 02:51:30 PST hoohoo! Look here: [link] !!!!
It's our STILL! A STILL!!! OH MY GOD!!! I mean, if anyone needs a cheap, illegal and convenient way to produce their own high-potency liquor, it's me

And I say, here's Johnny Bravo and the Devil having a contest to see who can smoke the most weed: [link]

Cha-hoohoohoo...damn!

And I bet y'all didn't know it, but I'm a fan of Harry Potter. I'm also a fan of internet piracy, but that's neither here nor there. The point is, I wrote a little Harry Potter fan fiction in my day. Now I'm not one to toot my own horn (and that, children, is what we call a "damn dirty lie"), but this is the funniest thing ever produced by mankind: [link]

I tell ya, I had no idea getting into law school would be so much work. I think I'm aboot to have a brain aneurysm! Damn, sometimes I think I should just move to the Cowichan Valley and live in a shack someplace. But you know what's really cool, I learned how to play Riders on the Storm on the piano. Mmmyeah, SHAZAM! UPDATE MY PHONE! ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/6575949/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/6575949/ Thu, 22 Sep 2005 18:53:51 PDT ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/6455417/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/6455417/ Fri, 09 Sep 2005 00:23:26 PDT
NFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME: Cowboys over Eagles

AFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME: Patriots over Jets

SUPER BOWL: Patriots over Cowboys ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/6417773/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/6417773/ Sun, 04 Sep 2005 21:34:12 PDT [link] to prove it ). I called who would be the two best basketball teams last year. And yesterday we were playing "red or black" for beers and I called for a 9 and was right. So now I shall pick the precise outcome of the NFL season which we eagerly await. YEAH FOOTBALL!!

* means wildcard

NFC
EAST

Cowboys
Eagles*
Redskins
Giants

I say this division will finish tied but I think the Cowboys will get a tiebreak. Specially now they got Peerless Price.

NORTH
Lions
Vikings
Packers
Bears

I don't like Mike Tice's coaching and I do like the Lions' offense.

SOUTH
Bucs
Panthers*
Falcons
Saints

Best division in the NFC. Mike Vick gets hurt. Don't even get me started on why this is Tampa's year again, cause it clearly is.

WEST
Seahawks
Cardinals
Rams
49ers

Seahawks get tiebreaker even though their run defense still sucks.

AFC
NORTH
Patriots
Jets*
Bills*
Dolphins

Best division in football by far and basically I'm guessing on this one. Can't pick against Brady though.

NORTH
Ravens
Steelers
Bengals
Browns

Baltimore will run away with it cause the Steelers have lost their mojo. Cincy will be damn good and tie with Pittsburgh.

SOUTH
Colts
Texans
Jaguars
Titans

Same as usual for this division, Colts kick some shit.

WEST
Chargers
Raiders
Chiefs
Broncos

Every team in this division will finish within one game of the lead.

I will post my playoff predictions some time later as I have to think more about em yet. ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/6284245/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/6284245/ Sun, 21 Aug 2005 00:34:29 PDT ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/6136051/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/6136051/ Thu, 04 Aug 2005 20:29:56 PDT
From [link] :

1) Call Irwin Cotler regularly.

Canada's Justice Minister is Irwin Cotler. It is largely his decision whether Canada will extradite Marc Emery. Cotler's biography describes him as a "peace activist" who has devoted his life to supporting international human rights, free speech, freedom of religion, women's rights, minority rights, war crimes justice and prisoners' rights, but he has not proven himself to be a friend to the cannabis culture.

Please call each of these three phone numbers twice every week, and politely repeat your message every time. The goal is to keep these lines constantly tied up with calls and voice mails about Marc Emery, so that the Justice Department phones are ringing steadily about the Emery case every day for the next few months.

When you call, always be very polite. Your goal is not to get into a debate with Cotler's secretary. Just say that you are calling because it would "shock your conscience" for Marc Emery to be extradited to the US for alleged marijuana seeds crimes committed on Canadian soil. Say that you believe that if Marc has broken the law in Canada, he should be tried in Canada, under Canadian laws.

If they say you are calling the wrong number ask what number you should call. But still call them again the next week regardless.

No matter where you are in the world, please call all three of these phone numbers every week. We definitely need active, vocal support from Americans and also from the international community.

* Irwin Cotler's Constituency Office: 514-283-0171
* Irwin Cotler's Parliamentary Office: 613-995-0121
* Justice Department Office: 613-992-4621

If you have access to a fax machine then please also send a daily or weekly fax supporting Marc Emery to each of these Justice Department fax numbers:

Fax: 613-992-6762
Fax: 514-283-2407
Fax: 613-990-7255

Don't bother sending emails to Cotler. Emails are easily ignored, deleted, or filtered out as spam. Weekly phone calls and faxes are much more effective in creating awareness and political pressure.


2) Donate and buy

This raid means the end of Marc Emery Marijuana Seeds, which was the pioneering business which Marc Emery used to fund activist efforts around the world. Marc, Michelle and Greg will all have huge legal bills, while at the same time losing their assets, income and livelihood.

Money-losing projects like Pot-TV will need to be curtailed, political activities will be shut down, Cannabis Culture Magazine will struggle greatly, and all our staff will suffer layoffs and paycuts.

Please make a donation or purchase with the BC Marijuana Party, and buy a subscription to Cannabis Culture magazine. Our store is still fully stocked with books, pipes, bongs, clothes and other cannabis products. The only thing we don't sell now is seeds! We need your business to survive, so please come down and pick up some new paraphernalia.


3) Write to Canadian media

Please contact all of the following newspapers and magazines, with a new letter every week.

Don't write a big long letter. Just write a short, snappy letter which offers your opinion on American efforts to extradite Marc Emery.

Don't just send one mass email to all of these media at once. Instead send them each individually the same emailed letter.

Write one letter every week, different letters but on the same topic, and send them to every one of these media outlets every week.

A more complete list of Canadian media outlets can be found here: [link]

4) Contact your MP and MLA

If you are in Canada, then contact both your MP and your MLA. Don't send them an email, make a phone call. Try to make an appointment for a personal visit. Also have every one of your friends and family members each make their own phone call as well. The more calls they receive the better.

You are not seeking your MP and MLA to support the legalization of marijuana. Just say that you are calling because you want your elected representative to oppose the extradition of any Canadian to a foreign country when their actions are not considered a serious crime in Canada.

Remind them that Emery is the leader of a legitimate political party, that the Canadian government has knowingly collected taxes from his US seed sales for a decade, and that Emery has operated openly without interference from Canadian police since 1998.

Tell your MP and MLA that Canada should not be sending political activists to jail in foreign countries, especially whe... ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/6083984/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/6083984/ Sun, 31 Jul 2005 01:07:33 PDT Send Donations To:
CC Magazine
Box 15 - 199 West Hastings Street
Vancouver BC
V6B 1H4
Canada

or contact:
jodie@cannabisculture.com


To protest this hideous incursion against Canadian sovereignty for the purpose of arresting and imprisoning a political figure, contact your local politicians, media outlets, or the Canadian Department of Justice at justice@gov.nl.ca, or the Justice Minister, Irwin Cotler, at cotler.i@parl.gc.ca.

Official BCMP Statement:
"Today the offices of the BC Marijuana Party, a registered political party in British Columbia, were caught up in a DEA-instigated raid. The raid is a dramatic example of the loss of Canadian sovereignty to the US drug war. The focus of the US drug war is marijuana, with over 750,000 annual possession charges laid and draconian penalties for possession, cultivation and sales of the plant. Until today, Canada took a different approach.

Unfortunately, the Canadian governement appears to have abdicated its sovereignty to the United States. Most Canadian (and, indeed, most Americans) do not agree with with the war on marijuana users. It is a dark day when Canadian municipal police officers are called upon to do the bidding of US masters.

This raid must serve as a call to arms. Canada is losing the ability to independently create its drug policy, despite reams of scientific and empirical evidence that prohibition is more dangerous than a regulated approach to cannabis distribution. The battle for freedom, equality and tolerance must be fought and won. We must not allow our Canadian way of life to be subjected to the whim of the US White House and its repressive policies.

The BCMP will continue to fight for the freedom of the cannabis community, both in Canada and abroad." ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/6033563/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/6033563/ Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:40:13 PDT
Right, it's so like a regular episode only vastly expanded. They open with all the characters coming to the premier, except they're like they are in "real life", so like Cleveland shows up with all these gangbangers and smoking a bong, and Lois is all hammered. So they have a lot more of those deviations from the script, to stretch out the time: Stewie's all like, "this is even worse than my foray into politics" and it shows all these arabs dragging down a statue of him and beating it, and then a marine drags stewie out of a hole all dirty and bearded and they do the whole Hussein thing.

And cause it's a movie there's all sorts of jokes you couldn't say on TV, with the racism and disabled-laughing-at-ness and profanity, best comic use of profanity ever! Because it's Family Guy right, you don't expect the cursing. But they don't overdo it, so when they do use it you don't see it coming and it's like BAM! "You know what really grinds my gears? You, America. Fuck you!" And you're just like, whoa, what the HELL was that? And then you laugh so hard you cry and then shit yourself.

And the whole thing with Brian getting Stewie drunk, wow. Stewie's the greatest drunk ever. He causes so much shit Ahhhh, and that's only like half the movie! I swear, this is going to be the comedic hit of the century. Too bad they probably won't make a dime on it. Thanks again, internet piracy. ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/5878778/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/5878778/ Fri, 08 Jul 2005 16:26:43 PDT Prescription abuse double since '92
Number of teens abusing prescription drugs triples

The number of Americans who admit abusing prescription drugs nearly doubled to over 15 million from 1992 to 2003, with abuse among teens tripling, according to a new study released on Thursday.

The report by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University suggested that more Americans were abusing controlled prescription drugs than cocaine, hallucinogens, inhalants and heroin combined.

"Our nation is in the throes of an epidemic of controlled prescription drug abuse and addiction," said former health secretary Joseph Califano, chairman and founder of the Center.

"New abuse of prescription opioids among teens is up an astounding 542 percent," Califano said. "The explosion in the prescription of addictive opioids, depressants and stimulants has, for many children, made the medicine cabinet a greater temptation and threat than the illegal street drug dealer, as some parents have become unwitting and passive pushers."

The report was based on surveys of doctors and pharmacists, personal interviews and focus groups and analysis of national household surveys and census data.

The report said hundreds of Web sites advertised and sold controlled drugs, often without prescription and without regard to age so that teens and children could easily get them.

The substances most likely to be abused were opioids, or pain relievers like OxyContin or Vicodin; central nervous system depressants such as Valium or Xanax; stimulants including Ritalin or Adderall and anabolic-androgenic steroids like Anadrol or Equipoise.

"The problem can be seen in every stage of life: rich and poor, old and young, teens partying or cramming for exams, stressed executives, women juggling the challenges of work and care-giving, seniors struggling with illness and loss, the mentally ill searching for relief, movie stars, rock musicians and athletes," the report said.

It found that between 1992 and 2002, prescriptions written for controlled drugs increased more than 150 percent while the number of people abusing them rose seven times faster than the U.S. population.

In 2003, 2.3 million 12- to 17-year-olds -- almost one in 10 -- abused least one controlled prescription drug. Girls were more likely than boys to be abusers.

Teens who abused drugs were twice as likely to use alcohol, five times as likely to use marijuana, 12 times likelier to use heroin and 21 times likelier to use cocaine than teens who did not abuse such drugs.

The report also found that in 2002, controlled drugs were implicated in almost 30 percent of drug-related emergency room deaths while the number of prescription drug emergency room mentions in hospital logs increased by nearly 80 percent.

Law enforcement officials around the country have been wrestling with an epidemic of prescription drug abuse, especially of powerful pain killers like OxyContin, popularly known as "hillbilly heroin."

The report found a 140 percent rise in self-reported abuse of such pain killers from 1992 to 2003, disproportionately concentrated in the south and west of the country. ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/5605684/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/5605684/ Fri, 10 Jun 2005 02:43:30 PDT Canadian Press
Wednesday, June 08, 2005

VANCOUVER (CP) -- The ripe stench of human excrement is getting stronger in downtown lanes, curling the stomachs of workers who no longer want to relax by the back door for smoke breaks.

"We're getting to the point where the need for public toilets is getting serious," said Charles Gauthier, executive director of the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association.

"There's a burgeoning entertainment district, a growing homelessness problem and people have nowhere to go.

"I've been with the association for 15 years and it's just becoming more and more of an issue for more of our members. The stench of urine and feces in back lanes in the central business district and the Downtown Eastside, where it's probably a lot worse."

The 10-block city slum is swollen with up to 5,000 injection drug users who have less control of their bowels. Many are homeless and have nowhere to go to the toilet.

Often the drug users roam out of the neighbourhood into alleys linking downtown businesses.

Gauthier said his members don't want to clean up the piles excrement the homeless make on their properties and he doesn't blame them.

The Vancouver Coastal Health Authority has gotten involved and is calling for action before disease spreads.

"Defecating and urinating in the street is not something that's healthy for individuals," said Richard Taki, public health protection officer for the authority.

"A number of diseases are passed through the fecal-oral route. If people are tracking this bacteria into eating establishments and public facilities we're running the risk of a problem with rodents and insects carrying bacteria.

"Salmonella is the obvious threat and for a lot of the homeless people who are imunocompromised, food poisoning is going to be serious."

He said a solution, likely portable public toilets, is imminent.

"It's going to be sooner rather than later, it's something we're going ahead with."

City planners met with the business association Wednesday to tell them a range of options will have to be discussed.

"There's a considerable cost involved. In the Downtown Eastside we're going to need a supervised bank of toilets and that's going to cost in excess of $5,000 a month," said Bob Ross, a city engineer working on the issue.

Open urinals are also in the mix of strategies being considered.

"I'm not sure our culture is ready for that. It seems to me it's an undignified and humiliating way of dealing with the problem, but one that also seems to be working in parts of England and Amsterdam," Ross said.

There are logistical and financing challenges in the way of cleaning back lanes.

But the city, the health authority and the business association are all in agreement that something has to be done now.

"It's awful for residents who have to deal with the smell wafting in through their windows and it's just getting so much worse," said Ross.

Stakeholders have been discussing for years a plan to put self-cleaning, automated public toilets in the downtown, but have been afraid that they would be used for prostitution and to shoot drugs.

The city has a contract with a street furniture company to provide six of the units and just has to decide if they are something the community would respect and where to put them.

"There have been problems with illegal activity happening in the toilets in other cities, like Seattle and San Francisco," said Gauthier.

"But now I think we've come to a point in Vancouver where we have to act. The public need far outweighs those concerns. These units are going to be automated and will have a time limit on them. And really, people are going shoot drugs wherever they want."

Vancouver city council has turned to other Canadian municipalities for guidance, but so far nobody has come up with a solution, said Ross.

Vancouver is set to commission a study to map the size of the problem and is considering spending more money on maintaining public toilets in the downtown entertainment and business districts.

More funding is needed for permanent public washrooms in the Downtown Eastside slum where thousands of homeless drug users have long used alleys as toilets.

Kim Kerr, general manager of the Downtown Eastside Resident's Association, said he is disgusted with the plan.

"This is a ghetto where people are turned out to rot, we're talking about adults with the mental capabilities of 10-year-olds who are addicted to drugs. They have no home, they have no toilet. What do you expect," Kerr said.

"We are worr... ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/5556673/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/5556673/ Sun, 05 Jun 2005 01:24:47 PDT Since my b-day up to this day He is close by
Watchin over me, while Babylon scopin me
From my mother's womb they took my mind n started mouldin me
Like Mookie on the crock I heard the devil callin me
By the powers of JAH he took the devil off of me
I can see clearly now, I'm stepping with authority
God blessed you, I got the whole world supportin me
JAH is my friend different from the enemy them
I talks to him shoutin out lookin up to heaven
Gave me a call he said I want you tell them all
That you shall witness when Babylon fall
All you shall witness when Babylon fall"

i write the LSAT on monday, pray for me ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/5444345/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/5444345/ Tue, 24 May 2005 01:57:22 PDT
Summary of the report of the Jamaican National Commission on Ganja.

[link]

giddyup.

In other news, yesterday was quite possibly the wierdest 24 hours of my 2005. I'm gonna leave everyone in the dark so they'll imagine the worst but suffice to say there was quite a lot of blood...woooOOOooo... ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/5417811/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/5417811/ Sat, 21 May 2005 04:09:10 PDT ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/5307145/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/5307145/ Mon, 09 May 2005 00:02:40 PDT
FUCK BETTMAN!! FUCK!!

Right, [link] herein I predicted the exact outcome of the 2004 Stanley Cup finals a full three rounds before it occurred. And I do believe I've done it again. At the VERY BEGINNING of the NBA season I was watching the first day of games and arguing sports, and I said "Hey, I'd wager the finals this year will be between Phoenix and Miami." Now, did any sports writers pick up on this? Noo-oo sir, they all went with San Asstonio and Detroit, or somesuch. But who, I say who had the best conference records. Yeeah that's right. And who's gonna be in the Finals? Yeeah that's right.

Ooh! And Ooh! I have a new phone and it is DOPE Good times.

]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/5083222/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/5083222/ Wed, 13 Apr 2005 23:41:59 PDT
Lead story: some asian got his grow house jacked by kids, and people all down the street saw them taking his plants and called him in to the cops. Turns out he owns a hydroponics store, and when the news guys went there it had already been turned into an election campaign office for the New Democratic Party Now that's bad publicity!

And you know how they usually end off with some sort of human interest story? Well the local channel ran a story about a kid in the states who broke into a tomb and stole some guy's skull, police say "apparently he wanted the skull to use for making a bong." So the anchor girl says for commentary, "what's the matter, can't people get decent bongs in the states?"

Aw shit, I haven't laughed so hard since -

oh damn, I just remembered, since I saw that fat guy bail in a puddle of beer and take out a stack of metal chairs at the university beer festival last week. What a day ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/4967124/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/4967124/ Fri, 01 Apr 2005 04:45:13 PST ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/3919451/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/3919451/ Thu, 25 Nov 2004 19:03:58 PST B.C. Leading Nation in Drug Use
Survey points to an increase in users across the country

Times Colonist
Thursday, November 25, 2004

The number of illicit drug users in Canada doubled in the past decade, and B.C. holds the dubious distinction of leading the way on most fronts, according to a national survey released Wednesday.

The Canadian Addiction Survey shows 14 per cent of Canadians reported using marijuana and other illicit drugs in the past year, compared to just seven per cent in 1994.

Of particular concern, more young Canadians are smoking pot and drinking heavily, researchers said.

B.C. reported the highest rates of marijuana use and other illicit drug use in the country, and among the highest rates of harm caused by drug or alcohol use.

"It's always a concern when you're leading a trend that you might not want to lead," said Dan Reist of B.C.'s Centre for Addictions Research.

But he cautioned that B.C.'s numbers require more study, and may be slightly skewed.

Reist said the issue's high profile in B.C. may have resulted in more British Columbians that use drugs agreeing to take part in the survey.

The survey, which was conducted from December 2003 to April 2004, found that one in two British Columbians or 52 per cent reported using marijuana in their lifetime, compared with 45 per cent of all Canadians.

About 17 per cent of B.C. residents said they had used marijuana in the past year, while just 14 per cent of Canadians said they had.

Reist said B.C. researchers will spend the next year analyzing the province's numbers in more detail and publishing a series of policy papers.

He noted that drugs and alcohol have a "huge impact" on society, with illnesses related to the use of tobacco, alcohol and illicit substances responsible for almost a quarter of B.C.'s health-care costs.

"So, in that sense, when we're in a bit of a crisis around health-care spending, it's very important to start dealing with these things," he said.

Brenda Locke, minister of addiction services, said government will await more study by the addictions centre.

Across Canada, the survey found that most Canadians over 15 drink, and that they do so in moderation and without harm. But the survey showed an increase in heavy drinking among young people, who were more likely to harm themselves when drinking and more likely to be harmed, said Patricia Begin, director of research and policy at the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse.

The researchers also expressed concern about the rise in marijuana use among young people. Almost 30 per cent of 15- to 17-year-olds, and more than 47 per cent of 18- to 19-year-olds stated that they had used marijuana in the past year.

Begin said those figures are troubling because 18 per cent of marijuana users, regardless of age, reported using the drug on a daily basis.

If young people are smoking marijuana that often, it could have "real implications for their ability to complete their studies or their options for the future," Begin said.

Marijuana use, particularly if it is heavy, can affect a person's cognitive functioning, Reist said. Researchers, therefore, worry about the potential long-term effects of heavy use on adolescents whose brains are still developing. "It's not about saying we know for sure," Reist said. "It's just a worrying issue."

He also noted that smoking pot can lower a person's motivation. "If you go through your teenage years with low motivation, what does that do to your life prospects?"

Almost 14,000 Canadians age 15 and older were interviewed by telephone for the survey, which was sponsored by Health Canada, the Canadian Executive Council on Addictions, B.C.'s Centre for Addictions Research, and the B.C., Nova Scotia and New Brunswick governments. People were interviewed between Dec. 16, 2003 and April 19, 2004. The survey's margin of error is one per cent, 19 times out of 20 on the national results. ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/3861944/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/3861944/ Thu, 18 Nov 2004 01:28:53 PST ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/3836272/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/3836272/ Sun, 14 Nov 2004 19:28:23 PST [link]

I'm wondering more about this stuff...if the dirty pharmaceutical co.'s are right, it's a miracle drug (of course they're wrong). But that doesn't mean it can't be a positive thing. A drug which stops smoking, counteracts obesity, and can stop a variety of other drug cravings is a definite plus.

But.

The drug BLOCKS CANNABINOID RECEPTORS, that's right. The idea came from weed, of course; people thought, if smoking weed gives you the munchies, blocking the weed receptors will make you less hungry. The danger in this thinking should be immediately apparent to all stoners.

Studies indicate the following:
1. To maintain the effect of the drug one has to keep taking it. Once the receptors are unblocked you get hungry again, or want to smoke again.
2. 13% of those taking the drug in studies stopped due to mental side effects: depression, anxiety and irritability. Exactly what you'd expect in people who had their Cannabinoid Receptors blocked - that's a large part of your spiritual chemistry which is being blocked from use.

What I worry about is that press on this has focused as much on the potential to stop use of other drugs- mainly marijuana- as it has on weight loss. If this stuff does block marijuana effects, the prohibitionists will jump all over it. And that makes me think, Danger! Danger!

I shall be keeping an eye on this situation. Those treacherous pharmaceuticals don't know where to stop. Prozac in our drinking water, for God's sake! There's no escape from the World Market State. ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/3835044/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/3835044/ Sun, 14 Nov 2004 16:52:17 PST [link]

Remember people, Heroin was first marketed by Bayer as a cure for Morphine addiction. I am highly suspicious of this sort of thing. What sort of use will this be put to? And more importantly, what sort of testing will the pharmaceuticals be required to put it to? I'll wager the DEA rushes it through testing in a hurry...here's hoping they don't need to ban it 10 years later. I'll wait for the precedent on using this in drug sentencing...when a marijuana conviction will get you a 6-month forced prescription to this stuff.

Oh brave new world, that has such things in it! ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/3721173/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/3721173/ Mon, 01 Nov 2004 01:21:07 PST ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/3645854/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/3645854/ Thu, 21 Oct 2004 22:30:04 PDT assuring us that the "real" world is this Veil world of the senses, of material time and space, and that the way of sanity and reasonableness is to adapt and make the best of it, that only fools and madmen think otherwise."

from Irene Taylor, "The Woman Scaly" ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/3537361/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/3537361/ Thu, 07 Oct 2004 19:11:01 PDT Gonna fight the ticket though, cause giving money to the police would be like punching myself in the head.

Rough times in school. 6 class is a lot of work, and I work weekends. Haven't had a day off since the beginning of Sept. Quite the brutality. ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/3469274/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/3469274/ Tue, 28 Sep 2004 20:36:50 PDT

Last week 11-3
All Season 30-16

Green Bay over New York Giants
Philadelphia over Chicago
Washington over Cleveland
Cincinnati over Pittsburgh
Indianapolis over Jacksonville
New England over Buffalo
Houston over Oakland
Carolina over Atlanta
New Orleans over Arizona
N.Y. Jets over Miami
Denver over Tampa Bay
Tennessee over San Diego
St. Louis over San Francisco
Baltimore over Kansas City ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/3418213/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/3418213/ Tue, 21 Sep 2004 23:23:57 PDT The earth and every common sight
To me did seem
Apparelled in celestial light
The glory and the freshness of a dream"
It sucks more now than it hath been of yore

I think I grew up or something, because I have to do stuff, and it's not fun. The things which I have seen I now can see no more. I have to wake up before noon EVERY day from now til December, pretty much, and work my ass off. Huxley was right, modern culture ate my soul that used to be all vibrant and fucked up and left me with nothing but a little quivering ghost. I've got nothing.

Football Picks:
Atlanta over Arizona
Minnesota over Chicago
New Orleans over St. Louis
Philadelphia over Detroit
Baltimore over Cincinnati
Cleveland over N.Y. Giants
Kansas City over Houston
Jacksonville over Tennessee
Pittsburgh over Miami
Indianapolis over Green Bay
Seattle over San Fran
Denver over San Diego
Tampa Bay over Oakland with vengeance
Dallas over Washington ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/3366789/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/3366789/ Wed, 15 Sep 2004 00:42:33 PDT

Week 1 results were 9-7
WEEK 2 Picks
Falcons over Rams
Steelers over Ravens
Lions over Texans
Packers over Bears
Broncos over Jags
Chiefs over Panthers
Saints over 49ers
Redskins over Giants
Colts over Titans
Seahawks over Bucs
Patriots over Cardinals
Cowboys over Browns
Bills over Raiders
Jets over Chargers
Bengals over Dolphins
Eagles over Vikings ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/3322146/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/3322146/ Thu, 09 Sep 2004 00:07:38 PDT
Indianapolis 32 at New England 27
New England is due for a loss, and this being the first game of the season I see Peyton-to-Marvin capitalizing big time on the new 5-yard-touch enforcement.

Arizona 13 at St. Louis 30
Baltimore 17 at Cleveland 13
Cincinnati 20 at N.Y. Jets 17
Detroit 21 at Chicago 13
Jacksonville 24 at Buffalo 21
Oakland 17 at Pittsburgh 27
San Diego 24 at Houston 35
Seattle 40 at New Orleans 30
Tampa Bay 17 at Washington 10
Tennessee 21 at Miami 10
Atlanta 37 at San Francisco 17
Dallas 21 at Minnesota 30
N.Y. Giants 17 at Philadelphia 37
Kansas City 30 at Denver 27 ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/3244078/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/3244078/ Mon, 30 Aug 2004 01:31:42 PDT
It's only 10 days til school starts again which means I need two grand in a hurry. Blast. ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/3159919/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/3159919/ Wed, 18 Aug 2004 21:03:25 PDT ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/2946985/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/2946985/ Fri, 23 Jul 2004 03:38:36 PDT
© Times Colonist (Victoria) 2004
Late-night cheap-pizza joints and hot dog vendors are contributing to violence, vandalism and rowdiness in downtown Victoria, according to city police who are seeking a crackdown on the operations.

Groups of 100 or more are hanging outside the takeout places in the wee hours, blocking the sidewalk and traffic lanes and disturbing residents and hotel guests, police say.

An 11-page report presented to city council Thursday calls for midnight closings for downtown takeout food places, some of which stay open until 4 a.m.

But this has provoked a protest from the business owners, who say they were not contacted by police or city officials about the alleged problems.

"This is almost ridiculous," said Habib Hajivalizadeh, owner of Second Slice Pizza, at 1310 Douglas St., one of the businesses singled out by police. "How can pizza add to crime?"

Takeout food restaurants, like nightclubs and bars, are a part of downtowns all over the world, Hajivalizadeh said. Food and music until late at night are part of what makes for a vibrant city, he said.

"I guess they are trying to make this a city for people over 50 years old."

Hajivalizadeh rents space in a heritage building owned by former mayor Bob Cross. He said Cross talked to him about six months ago about complaints from residents, living above his pizza business, concerned about noise from patrons. He said that he suggested that Cross install better soundproofing for the apartments and hasn't heard back since.

Council has decided to hold a public hearing -- the date has yet to be set -- into the proposal for earlier closing hours.

Under the plan, sit-down restaurants with table service would be allowed to stay open.

Takeout places could still do delivery orders, but would have to close their doors to walk-in customers.

In another report, bylaw enforcement officer Dan Scoones bolstered police concerns about takeout food outlets.

"The related problems of illegal consumption of alcohol, fighting, assaults, noise disturbances, littering and detritus in private doorways and alcoves have led to calls for stronger regulation of takeout food services by the city."

After the bars close, many patrons head for takeout places. Scoones said most of the 71 eating establishments downtown close by midnight, but 15 stay open later. Seven are mostly takeout-style, offering pizza and pita wraps.

"It's among this latter group that the 'problem' establishments are found," the report said. Eight licensed food carts on private property catering to the same late-night crowd are an added concern, according to the report.

In the police report, Sgt. Jim Simpson said a large percentage of the problems originate at the Second Slice pizza outlet and at the Pita Pit, 1221 Wharf St.

They're not alone but "they are a definite contribution to the late-night decay and chaos that has a negative effect on the ability of people to enjoy having a residence downtown," he wrote.

The takeout places "are the focal point for intoxicated persons who would otherwise disperse from the area."

An unnamed police officer quoted stated: "These places are absolute zoos and on some nights there are close to 100 people milling around trying to fill the munchie void. They are intoxicated, loud, obnoxious and sometime in a fighting mood. Not to mention the sea of garbage that is left in their wake."

The manager of the Pita Pit, who did not want to be identified, said he was not familiar with the report and had not been contacted by police or city officials.

"The city has not contacted me once," he said. But felt the fast-food businesses were being scapegoated for problems that originate in the bars.

"It's not me that's getting them drunk," he said.

The manager said that he would be forced to close down if he couldn't stay open late, because most of his business is done then, especially in the winter when he relies on local students to survive.

Hajivalizadeh said he would like to see a greater police presence, with officers patrolling the streets to reduce anti-social problems, like street people and panhandling. To blame problems on pizza joints is a "cop-out," he said.

But Coun. Helen Hu... ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/2885608/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/2885608/ Thu, 15 Jul 2004 01:36:28 PDT [link] in which I brilliantly predicted the outcome of the Stanley Cup after the end of the first round...crazy shit, I should have called my bookie.

I've been a-workin all summer just to try to earn tuition, damnit, and it's long lousy hours, alleviated by pretty girls and free italian food. But it would be nice if all my friends didn't all have different and various hours, because we can only ever get like a gathering of three at once. It's all like, "man I'd love to drink but I gotta work in three hours" or "damnit I'm supposed to be at work now! Shit!"

I've had a seven fucking day week of working, and I'm not sure that's even legal. But money is nice, and on my day off I'm gonna go to the beach, drink Coronas and smoke weed in the sun.

Ooh, and on Saturday...or Friday...can't recall, I got SO hammered, on a mix of...Tanqueray, Absinthe, Polar Ice Vodka, Appleton's 151, R&R, and Bombay. Exactly And I smoked a LOT of weed, and ate a LOT of mushrooms, and wandered all over town with a bunch of people tripping on acid. It was bizarre. I had to work with the worst hangover and the least sleep ever.

Just wanted to make sure I recorded what was in that mix for posterity Still amazed I called the Cup Final! ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/2785264/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/2785264/ Fri, 02 Jul 2004 04:09:43 PDT OUR HOOME AND KICKASSSS LAAAAAND
THE TRUE FAVOURITE BUD
FROM STONER'S RENTED LAAAAND
ThE SOMETHING UH,,
WE SEE THEEE RISE
THE UH TRUE NORTH STRONG AAAND FREEEEE
FROOM FAAAR AND WIIDE OHHH CANADAAAA
WE STAAND OON GUAARD FOOOR THEEEE
GOD KEEEP OUR LAAAAAND
GLORIOUUS AAAND FREEEE
OH CANNADA WE STAAND ON GUARD FOOOR THEEEEE
OHhhh CAAAANADAA WEE STAAND OOON GUAAARD FOOOR THEEEE

:canada:

Yeah Yeah baby it is Canada Day! 30 000 people downtown in the harbour, a mad party going off, peeps everywhere! Shi-it what a time. Avoided the cops long enough to slam all my beers and then when they came out in force, I paraded my weeed shirt and shook their hands for photo-ops...then waved the weeed shirt in front of the cop-bike caravan...red flag to a bull! Taunting the po is the shiiit, impotent pigs!

Drankey a looot of gin and beeers and smoked weed and chilled with the randoms and the fiiine ckickas too drunk to stay clothed Victoria is the most beautiful city, I do not want to leave ever when there's fine ass of that caliber

:canada: mmm yeah :canada: YEAH!!! ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/2768224/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/2768224/ Wed, 30 Jun 2004 00:32:03 PDT ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/2757918/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/2757918/ Mon, 28 Jun 2004 18:37:39 PDT
It's my buddy Mike's birthday today, there shall be beer and pot. It is the order of summer. Working is good when it doesn't suck.

Life: ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/2744667/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/2744667/ Sun, 27 Jun 2004 01:18:13 PDT
GAH CHARLIE HORSE CHGAH!

Jesus Christ that hurt!

So my manager let me know that he was very pissed off and would certainly not give me a reference that was good. And today I was given a job as a dishwasher, not that I want to be a dishwasher at all as it smells bad there. Lots of ho-ot waitresses though ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/2681626/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/2681626/ Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:38:21 PDT [link]

Man, these bastards really get my proverbial goat. Just reading their bullshit is enough to make one want to smuggle something across the border, anything, just to get one over on the DEA pigs. Wish I had a boat.

So anyways, I'm definitely at war. These guys want to invade B.C. and our people (well some of them, like that GVPD bitch) are working with them; Cannabis Culture says so. Gotta fight back. How, you ask?

When you buy weed your money goes back to the growers (unless you are a grower) and they use it grow more. Or they spend it on coke, but some of it goes to finance the growing. So every time you buy you are financing the production of more marijuana and participating in a cycle: more people smoking more weed means more weed is grown, which means prices come down, which means more weed is smoked, etc, etc. Macroeconomics!

Oh God, this province is beautiful. Six days of work left. ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/2655404/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/2655404/ Mon, 14 Jun 2004 01:50:09 PDT
Yeah I went to a Led Zeppelin tribute concert tonite, it was pretty sweet. The band played the second album, Communication Breakdown, and Stairway...then they stopped, bah. I ate a bunch of shrooms and wandered around downtown and sold pot to some crackheads I also have no sense of hearing. ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/2619280/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/2619280/ Wed, 09 Jun 2004 08:20:19 PDT

So as I am (technically) no longer able to smoke pot there I will likely quit, and soon, because it just sucks that much and this is the last straw.

On the brighter side I get my paycheque in like three hours and I'm grabbin me an ounce...maybe an ounce of shrooms too. ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/2555262/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/2555262/ Tue, 01 Jun 2004 03:15:35 PDT
Working is not my style at all. I don't dig it. In fact it sucks. I gotta be free! The suckiness is slightly alleviated by the fact that I work with one of my better friends now, and we smoke a lot of weed. And there's free donuts. Man, I'm such a bum Need...University...Money!

Another friend has randomly decided that he is no longer smoking pot, which is a disappointment. Although there has been uproar in the immediate group of stoners, he has in fact only made it two days Not difficult at all, I did that last week, or the week before...well I did it sometime anyways, and it was not as much fun as being stoned, let me tell you that.

I was going to say something but my brain is fried, as we all know...it'll come to me. I'm sick of these stinky boots! OHH RIGHT! Lousy synapses. Yeah, why the hell do I feel like a bum for being home on a Monday night, when I work tomorrow? Who the hell parties on a Monday night? I don't think the clubs are even open tonight. Such is the price we pay for constant weekday partying/smoking pot. Quite out of sorts. ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/2526799/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/2526799/ Fri, 28 May 2004 06:49:24 PDT
Work sucks, I feel like a strange crackhead! ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/2485862/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/2485862/ Sat, 22 May 2004 18:50:22 PDT ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/2465860/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/2465860/ Wed, 19 May 2004 20:43:17 PDT
Now there is unfortunate work to go to, sweet money to be made, a long weekend to look forward to, and random large deals to be negotiated, if possible. Is opportunity knocking? Strange Days have tracked us down. Purple Haze. ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/2383695/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/2383695/ Sat, 08 May 2004 06:12:11 PDT This is the only way I ever get to see the sun come up as I'm usually asleep til like 3:30

An English professor at the University here has written a book called "Alias Bob Dylan Revisited" and though I disagree with his reading of "Visions of Johanna" it is a wonderful book! From Ekstasis Publishing, a local house, I'll have to check them out.

I have a job, and now I must make enough money to quit I hate working almost as much as I hate being poor. Party tomorrow. An old friend of mine has re-entered our circle after a lengthy absence and must be rehabilitated with lots of marijuana. Such is life. ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/2346938/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/2346938/ Sun, 02 May 2004 20:04:03 PDT
Now that I've finished with the rather pathetic uh, groveling for comments, I can say I don't feel too pathetic for doing so...probably cause I feel like shit...my right lung has a massive ache or something. And I'm stuck working to-nite, and probably missing my friends' band's gig ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/2291112/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/2291112/ Sat, 24 Apr 2004 19:43:20 PDT Of all the crappy occupations this one is fairly high up there! We shall see how desperate I am for cash. I'd rather sell drugs than knives, damnit. Less potential for violence Man, if there were door-to-door random drug dealers it would be hilarious! And telemarketers. Phoning during dinner to offer you weed. Hmmmmm... ]]> ~Peacefroggie http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/2260273/ http://Peacefroggie.deviantart.com/journal/2260273/ Tue, 20 Apr 2004 00:18:49 PDT Smoke weed all day!!!

Word...well, disappointment in the Canucks' loss. Tampa's gonna win the cup now, over the Flames. That's my call.

Anyways, 4.20...I have a gorgeous ounce, fucking huge buds in there, it's really prime. And Sleeman's brewery is releasing a hemp ale, which we shall have to taste of course. There will be smoking of pot as has not been seen for a while! The cloud will be visible from the sky! People will get high just from walking the street! weed:

Happy 4.20! ]]> ~Peacefroggie