Monthly Archives: April 2024

4:20 2021 – 2009

April 20, 2024 – 10:02 am

Today is 4/20, when people celebrate smoking marijuana worldwide, despite the draconian laws against the weed. In total 48 states have legalized marijuana use. The hold-outs come as no surprise. God and pot do not mix. Idaho and Nebraska are the final die-hard anti reefer backwaters. Denying the fact that the States and Federal government […]

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The Shadow of Le Cafe de Flore

April 20, 2024 – 9:04 am

The Shadows of the Cafe de Flore Out on the Myrtle Avenue terrace composing a poem about le’ terrasse de le Cafe de Flore. The City of light will always hold a good part of my soul Early April Evening On Myrtle Avenue The neighborhood Afoot on the sidewalk The car traffic dying down Not […]

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4:20 4/20 2024

April 20, 2024 – 3:20 am

Police and parents demonized Marijuana during my youth. Reefer smokers were condemned by the courts. John Sinclair, the MC5 radical, was sentenced to ten years of prison for the crime of ‘giving’ an undercover agent two joints. The severity of his punishment did not deter the millions of marijuana smokers of the 60s from becoming […]

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Girls like girls in Pattaya

April 20, 2024 – 3:02 am

WRITTEN Sep 19, 2010 The political situation in Bangkok had gotten out of control. The red shirts controlled the city. The police did nothing. People called them daeng moh or watermelon. They were red on the inside. Thaksin was a fellow cop. The Army was in the hands of the old elite or phuu laak […]

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Good and Bad 4/20

April 20, 2024 – 1:57 am

4/20 is considered a good day by millions of free marijuana smokers around the world, but not every April 20th has been perfect. Yesterday morning I phoned Dakota Pollock for his birthday and he explained, “Hitler was born on April 20th, the Columbine High School Massacre happened on this day, and the DEEPWATER HORIZON exploded […]

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