Thangleby_Slapdiback

Hell, I'm an "old guy" and "No Excuses" is still one of my favorite songs from any band at any time.

Same with my mother - who was born in Oslo in 1937. She said she and her friends would run up to German soldiers (who were themselves mostly kids) and ask them for bonbons - which the soldiers would generally give them.

Don't worry. It's a line from Starship Troopers.

Congressman Polis:

First - thank you for your Quixotic attempt. I'm so grateful for it.

You see, I'm a 48 year old working class man who has smoked marijuana for most of my life. I don't do it all the time. Every few months or so I buy a small quantity (usually twenty dollars or less). It generally takes me about two weeks to kill it and then I don't buy any more for a while.

I don't drink. I don't do any other drugs. I go to work every day. I have been working since I was thirteen years old, sometimes two or three jobs at once. I've never been arrested. I vote. I pay my bills on time.

The only law I've broken are the marijuana laws. That alone is enough to actually make me a criminal. I am so tired of that. How could anyone look at me and the life I lead and call me a criminal while there are people in banks, on Wall St., and in other positions of power that engage in horrendously greedy behavior that screws the people?

How is it that I'm considered a criminal by our legal system (albeit one that has yet to be caught), while people at AIG, or HSBC, or UBS, or any other large financial institution are not?

Why is it that I risk jail every time I buy marijuana, but the people who launder money for the people who produce cocaine and heroin in mass quantities and blithely kill those who stand against their brutality do not?

I can think of no law more unjust than our laws against marijuana.

I sincerely hope you are successful. I know in my heart that you will not be. There are too many people making too much money from the current state of affairs to ever allow anything so banal as decency to enter the conversation.

But thank you for trying.

Sincerely.

Thank you for being a decent man in a parliament of whores.

In Canada even the Aboriginals say "eh?"?

Sounds like "y'all" in Texas. It's in the dirt. There's no avoiding it.

Disclaimer: I grew up in Upstate NY, just south of Lake Ontario. I say "eh?" as well. Can't help it.