Just struck me funny.

I was at a political meeting the other night. We got to the end of the agenda, and the chair of the committee opened the floor for the discussion of people’s concerns that had not been included on the agenda.

Referring to a very generic and embryonic idea to make the recreational use of marijuana legal in the state of Massachusetts, a person at the table suggested that we as a group oppose it.

The gentleman obviously had strong feelings to oppose this action, and he had the right to express them, but he lost me when his major concern was that we did not need people getting stoned and then riding around town in their cars looking for more pot. As he explained it, that’s what stoned people do. They race around in their cars.

My first thought was that he had never smoked pot, and had no contact with anyone that did.

If he had ever smoked pot, or knew people who did, he would have known that in the main, once people get high, they are content to remain where they are, especially if they are watching a good movie, with the longest trip they would take being the one to the kitchen to check for munchies.

He was concerned that people would be so jazzed that they would get in their cars looking for their next fix.

It was apparent that he was confusing pot, which most people buy by the baggie and can have all night if not for a couple of days, with crack, a drug that has people constantly running around to get the next rock.

One mellows you out; the other gets you all manic.

Recreational pot, if Massachusetts follows the lead of those states that already have recreational use, would be treated like alcohol with age restrictions and, if you did leave the house while watching Fantasia, a near impossibility, could have you facing a DUI if you were pulled over for a traffic violation.

I would hope that in the pro and con discussions, both sides stick to facts without slipping into citing Reefer Madness as a reliable source of information.

The state of Utah is considering a bill to allow the use of medical marijuana to treat certain debilitating conditions.
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During a panel discussion of the proposed bill, Drug Enforcement Agent Matt Fairbanks presented the dangers of stoned rabbits.

“I come to represent the actual science, and I come with severe concerns. My concern is regarding the language of growing marijuana, how quickly any type of cash crop can get out of hand. There’s no language about cost for enforcement, which would exist regarding protection for the environment.”

So far, reasonable.

But then he went on to explain that while he was wandering around uprooting illegally planted marijuana plants out in the wilderness he had encountered rabbits that had “cultivated a taste for marijuana where one of them refused to leave us. And we took all of the marijuana around us, but his natural instincts to run were gone.”

Yes, obviously Bugs was too mellow to run away.

Agent Fairbanks’s statement, however, fell a little short of science since there has to be some form of fat ingested with marijuana in edible form for the THC to have any real effect, and as herbivores, even with the possibility of munchies, rabbits aren’t known to eat fatty foods or cook pot in butter.

Fairbanks may have found the one lazy rabbit in Utah, anyway, since he only mentioned that one as not running away.

Where were the others? If they were stoned, wouldn’t they have been still there vegging out like the one he mentioned?

If Marijuana were to become more legal, people would not have to go into the wilderness to grow it, and the rabbits would have less of a chance to get high.

But at any rate, stoned rabbits or not, Utah has moved the bill into its senate for discussion and vote.