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Connecticut Legislature Approves medical marijuana
a small victory for freedom. Connecticut’s State Senate voted 23-to-13 Saturday to legalize marijuana for medical use, making it the 16th state (along with the District of Columbia) to disagree with the feds that the plant has no therapeutic use
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Macmillan Dictionary (legalize) verb ▸to make something legal by creating a new law
Wow! That's some "victory for freedom", your massa gives you permission to use a naturally occurring herb.
It looks like someone else agrees with that assessment. See here.
Your assessment and the young lady's sign tell the whole story. Freedom's in your head. But don't take that too lightly: life's in your head.
Physiologically you're made up of probably less than a couple dozen of the hundred and some odd elements that have been identified and cataloged; but your life is what you see, hear and feel. That's why I bristle when a "libertarian" sets out to diss the religious beliefs of somebody else.
If you're free that means if you want to blow a reefer you'll blow a reefer. You'll understand and take certain precautions because there are parasitic and predator narcs lurking about to trip you up. You'll see those narcs as criminals. You'll intuitively perceive that they're worse than non-government criminals because they don't KNOW they're criminals. Not only that but neither do the unfree hordes who make up the better part of your neighbors and friends and family up and down the street.
That makes narcs triply egregious.
But a big part of freedom's challenge is solving the problem of side-stepping the most unstable of the gangsters -- those who wear the costumes of state and have badges and are armed and dangerous. And those who support them.
That challenge is what made me a sovereign state.
Sam
Yesterday's STR front page quote from the late Harry Browne went something like:
Agents of state know one tactic and one tactic only. They break your legs, hand you a crutch, then urge you to chant how happy you are "to be an American".
This story substantiates Harry.
Sam
You've got that right, Sam! Here's the exact quote and a helpful link.
"The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, 'See if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk'." ~ Harry Browne http://strike-the-root.com/quotes
As you may have suspected, Suverans2, I purposely paraphrased the late Harry Browne's quotation. Here's the reason: a year or so back I began to study into Delmar England's declaration that insanity IS the social norm. England is hard to read. He writes with a heavy, hard to comprehend hand; and I find myself having to go back and reread sentences and paragraphs and definitions. But after thinking through his themes I came to realize why many people -- even those espousing "libertarianism" -- can never completely cast off the chains of governmentalism.
One of England's central themes has to do with reification. If folks can be encouraged to think of "the government" as a living, breathing entity it matters not if they whine and complain, "she" is still "our country" (and whatever "our" leaders say or do must inevitably be for our own good).
I always try to avoid usages such as "..the state wants servile obedience..." Not. The state is individuals who do violence at the behest of the servile obedience of those who claim "citizenship" thereto. Sociopathic individuals claiming to represent "The State" want servile obedience.
"The government" is good at nothing. Predators who claim "a-mandate-of-the-people" are good at doing harm to "their citizens".
Freedom, I think, is in a large part getting my definitions straight so I can think free (or freely for the correctists).
Sam
Good word, Sam, reification (1846) "it is the error of treating as a concrete thing something which is not concrete, but merely an idea".