Sweet Sweet Mary Jane...
Damn Ma,
I love you like the lah, the ganja
Sensimilla, can I feel ya
All I wanna do is touch ya
The ultimate rush, you're drugs baby
- Notorious B.I.G.
My parents raised a good girl. Good grades, good citizen. Never got into fights, never showed out in class, respected my elders, and never ever used drugs. We were a clean cut middle class family. I admit, I was a poster child for D.A.R.E (Drug Abuse Resistance Education, yeah I know what it stands for!) when I was in high school. Then came college. I took a firm stand against drug abuse, even though I could smell it walking to class everyday, at sporting events, concerts, and in my dorm. I thought the drug kids were no good flunkies that would never amount to shit!
So there was this guy I liked. He was perfect. He was cool, he was sexy, he was fine..all that, then I found out he smoked weed. What a freaking waste...of course the inevitable happened. One night before a basketball he said, "C'mon Candee, just try it this once". Me and my best friend, sitting in a sweet pickles van taking a puff for the first time! (Do you remember that CEB?) After that I just did it every now and then, it didn't do much for me so I kept my distance. I graduated, moved to Raleigh and started my very mature "grown up" life. While all the junkies were still acting like children to me. Then someone else very special to me gave me some of that good marijuana..man..damn..why did he do that! I had graduated from college, landed a great job (that didn't drug test)..and I was loving the lah! Then its like I justified doing it! Just like they taught me not to do in DARE. Everyone else was..why shouldn't I. It was healthier than cigarettes!
My eyes were open to everything. I smelled it more, saw it more, knew the different types, and realized every rap song was talking about it! Jay-Z said "I'm feelin it through the high that you get from the lye. Feelin it if you feel it raise your l in the sky." Dr. Dre had a whole album called the Chronic. It did so well there was a Part II! And Big Boi and his cohorts are still talking about being on that Kryptonite. Now anyone who knows me, knows I love some Rick James..and Rick wrote a whole song about it..."I'm in love with Mary Jane. She's my main thing." Then there was De'Aneglo. I thought the song Brown Sugar was about a girl he was into! The whole song was about smoking weed! Whoa..blew my mind. Check it out here.
Now that I am a mom and a career woman, I can't do that like I used to. But don't get it twisted, if corporate America was not peeping over its shoulder for every little thing, I would puff at least once a week when the kids were gone and have a nice stiff drink to chase the smoke down. Whether you like purp, kush, haze, skunk, dro, or thai. Whether you call it hash, weed, chronic, Mary Jane, puff, or cannabis. Whether you like joints or blunts or bong...Drugs baby..the ultimate rush..
Now I know, its bad and I know I am sending the wrong message, but hopefully no youth read my blog. But you all are adults who make their own choices without peer pressure I hope. Its so natural, from the Earth...like vodka (which is made from grain or potatoes if you didn't know)! Think of how much the deficit would improve if they taxed it! So weigh in on this...is marijuana bad? If not, should it be legalized?
posted by Mz Cane at 12:01 AM
11 Comments:
Dang!! Is everyone scared of this topic? Or just to high to respond?
No, we are at work. Check back this evening
I had my first experience with the subject of this blog was when I was 14 years old. Didn't revisit again until I received it as a birthday gift on my 34th birthday. Just like alcohol I don't think it is bad in moderation. I don't partake everyday but when I'm stressed and need to relax I've found it is a great stress reliever. It's also a great aphrodisiac.
Yes, it should be legalized. The monies collected in taxes could fund Social Security, education or health care. Plus it would keep me from catching a case. MzCane when you start your petition for legalization be sure to send it my way!
Never smoked it. Never will smoke it. Never will have the urge to smoke it. Never been pressured to smoke it. Have and had a lot of homies who smoke it. When they light up, I just of about my business and catch up with them later. I don't even want any of the contact smoke. Plus, no reason for me to blow their high. They should legalize it. People are going to smoke it regardless of whether it is legal or illegal. At least if its legal, the government can tax it and use the tax revenue to better our public education system, pay teachers a better salary, fund a Puff, Puff, Pass scholarship to graduating seniors who can hold on to the roach the longest after the majority of the blunt has been smoked, and help rebuild New Orleans.
Questions that all of the weed heads and dealers should think about: Do you really want it legalized? What will all the drug dealers who sold weed do? Will they file unemployment? Will they start dealing a more harsh drug like the white powder? If its legalized and sold in stores like cigarettes, will the dealers be hired as experts for the stores? Will more corner stores get robbed because they carry a supply of the ganja behind the counter? Will the dealers sit back and accept no longer getting their fair share of money from dealing the chronic because grocery and convenient stores are getting the majority of the profits so the government can tax it? If legal, would it not become more accessible to your children, just like beer and cigarettes are right now, (the WE Card for cigarettes plan does not actually work)? Do you want weed stores on every corner of the black neighborhoods just like the ABC stores? Would you actually go to the store with your kids, put a bag of chips, some candy, and a couple of sodas on the counter and then say, by the way, let me get a dime bag of your best stuff? Will it cause more trouble than help with anything if it was legalized?
Okay, so I have to chuckle since my Mom's real name is Mary Jane...and the joke in the family is we call her "Marijuana". I have to admit that I have never smoked it. Can't really say if I ever will. I have had many opportunities but was lucky enough to have friends who didn't pressure. I don't mind hanging around them when they are but I guess I can find other ways to "have a good time". Just like with alcohol...sometimes it's more fun to kick back and watch than it is to participate.
I would have to agree with coolbreeze and question what would happen to all the dealers if it was legalized. I do think that for some medical purposes it should be used. I have seen enough of the studies to know that it can help.
Hmmmmmm, I was frist introduced as a Jr in High School. I puffed and puffed through college and throught out my mid twenties. I used to do it first thing in the morning, midday, afterwork and again before betime. It was a part of my socialization. Then when I started working, got married and had kids, I had to take life a tab bit more serious. I could not get high all the time. So, then I cut back to the weekends, late night, when the kids were in bed. I like the mellow feeling. I like not being hung over. I have done it from time to time, when getting together with old friends, about once a year. Due to the threat of loosing my job, I don't chance it at all anymore. I wish I could come home after a hard day at the office and light up. I agree with 1:35, it is a great aphrodisiac. I can only imagine how it would add to an evening with my Boo. I would not want to do it often, every blue, blue moon. I would like them to legalize it and put the tax money to good use like schools, retirement, not the war. I don't know what the dealers would do, maybe become consultants. I don't like blunts, but roll me a joint and let me unwind.
Mz. Cane CEB does remember, the marajauna thing never caught on with me but, some days, is wish I was Rush and had some OXICOTON.. to ease this damn pain!!!
Ok, Mz Cane.... I went to high school with you, I was there when you smacked tha bitch, so don't play that goodie goodie role......But anyway, back to the subject at hand, I have tried it a few times with some friends but it isn't really my thing, I didn't really get much of an effect from it other than it made me extremely horny.....
Just gimme di trees and mek we smoke it yo (Smoke it yo!)
It a mek we peace so don’t provoke it yo (Voke it yo!)
We nuh need nuh speed so we nah nuh coke it yo (Coke it yo!)
Set yuh mind at ease we gotta take it slow
Verse 1:
So when yuh see di S.P. floatin don’t provoke him
Cau di weed weh we smokin need fi soakin
Fastin fi di medication, and di best hygrade a Jamaican
When we a bun a weed we supportin and promotin
Lau di crack and di coke ting yeah we smoking
Herb a di healin of di nation
Legalize it right now we gwaan blaze one
Chorus:
Everyday, we be burnin not concernin what nobody wanna say
We be earnin dollars turning cau we mind deh pon we pay
Some got gold and all dem diamonds all we got is Mary J
Legalize it, time to recognize it
Verse 2:
This purple haze it mek mi crazy
Mek mi write new tune yeah dat’s what pays me
Cau dat not di only occupation
Goin to get some I give yuh medication
When a farmer grows it he knows to close it
Economical benefit help fi those who a fi deh yah pon di hard jugglin
Cau di system only keep man struggling
Studyin people a use it don’t abuse it
Cau di concentration well reputed
Dat’s why herb man dem a di wise one
And it found on di grave of King Solomon
And it good fi di eye sight and di chest sight
And it give yuh nuff inside just gimme di light
And, mek we blaze it we should a neva waste it
Chorus:
Again, we be burnin not concernin what nobody wanna say
We be earnin dollars turning cau we mind deh pon we pay
Some got gold and all dem diamonds all we got is Mary J
Legalize it, time to recognize it
Bridge:
Just gimme di trees and mek we smoke it yo (Smoke it yo!)
It a mek we peace so don’t provoke it yo (Voke it yo!)
We nuh need nuh speed so we nah nuh coke it yo (Coke itr yo!)
Set yuh mind at ease we gotta take it slow
Verse 3:
So when yuh see di S.P. floatin don’t provoke him
Cau di weed weh we smokin need fi soakin
Fastin fi di medication, and di best hygrade a Jamaican
Cau we know it as a great ting no debatin
While incarceratin true dem hatin
Cau dem don’t waan see we a remain calm
Even though dem condemn (?)
Chorus:
Again, we be burnin not concernin what nobody wanna say
We be earnin dollars turning cau we mind deh pon we pay
Some got gold and all dem diamonds all we got is Mary J
Legalize it, time to recognize it
Again, we be burnin not concernin what nobody wanna say
We be earnin dollars turning cau we mind deh pon we pay
Some got gold and all dem diamonds all we got is Mary J
Legalize it, time to recognize it
Sean Paul "We Be Burnin"
With that said, here goes. . I smoke the stuff occassionaly. and it does take the edge off.
If it is leagal in the WI, why can't it work for the US. Smaller countries such as the WI and
even South America make millions and Billions of dollars a year off of the drug industry.
If it were legalized, the government could control the strength and concisitenecy of it to
ensure that no one is gonna die from the gasoline that someone decided to cure their weed in.
(OK, so I've been around folks growing and harvesting the stuff as well.)I'm telling you, with
the technology available in the US and the right overnment intervention, Bud could become a
cash cow for the US. Then instead of paying farmers in the square states to let their fields
lay fallow, we could pay them to grow Gunja. You would hafta grow it in the square states though.
Yall know that if they grow it in the dirty, black folks would be sneaking in the fields to get
some free. I say make it legal. Hire the big time drug dealers as experts. Levy heavy taxes
against it. Use that money to improve the quality of life in this country.
I am a weed head. I live a normal life with a salary paying job, wife and kids. Recently I've come to terms with the fact that I will smoke to the grave.
Before college, the thought of someone smoking weed would scare me. I didn't want anything to do with anyone who smoked it. Until I met my college roommate. He used to come into the dorm with 50 Gallon trash bags of the stuff. I made sure we laid the ground rules that it was ok to sell out of the room but absolutely no smoking. After a while I got comfortable
being around it. When he was gone and someone I knew was looking for him, I'd make the sell and gave him the money. Before I knew it I was actually selling it myself. It funded my way through college. I'd buy an ounce or two and just sat on it. when the campus got "dry" and there was none to be found, everyone knew to try the geek in room 2010.
Now I don't smoke as much as i did when I was in school. With my kids getting older I know pretty soon will be time to put it away until i send them off to school. To dispell the mystery for the non smokers i have come up with 10 misconceptions of smoking weed.
1. Weed makes you smarter.(NOT! IT KILLS YOUR BRAIN CELLS! Makes you dumb as hell. I once got high and took a final exam that i didn't study for and got a perfect score. Weed gives you confidence to do well.)
2. Weed is healthier than cigarettes (If they both had filters then this would be true. Unfortunatly there are no filters)
3. Weed makes you hungry. (I don't think so. Weed makes food taste better and it also keeps you from getting full)
4. You can go to jail for smoking weed. (Although this may be true. Never heard of a confirmed story. Everyone I know that gets caught by the police just ends up loosing thier weed to the cops. If its less than .5 ounce its a misdemeanor anyways. Not worth the paper work.)
5. Weedheads can't get jobs. (I'm living proof that we can. And its a lot of smokers in corporate america. Drug tests are like any other tests. Easy to pass if you prepare for them. You're local drug store has the home drug testing kit to test your self out before taking the test in a lab. Same exact test.)
6. Weed makes you impotent. (Aint nothing wrong with my yang. Some of my best perfomances was when i was high)
7. Weed smokers get into trouble. (The last thing a smoker wants is trouble. No one gets smoked out and robs a store. Thats too much work)
8. Weed smokers feel bad when anti-drug commercials come on. (Those commercials make me wanna smoke. A fried egg does not mean your brain is being fried, it just makes you want an egg sandwich"
9. Weed smokers ... hold up .... cough cough .....forgot what i was about to say
10. Oh yea. Smoking weed will kill you. You can NOT die from smoking weed. I remember watching a video in school where in a little boy dies from trying to smoke a joint. I think programs like DARE exaggerate the bad effects of drugs to the point that they become unbelievable and ineffective. I plan to be straight up with my kids on why they shouldn't smoke until they are established in life.
I have a lot of smoke friends that still ain't doing shit with their lives because they smoke. It makes you lazy and dumb. If you don't have a job on lock already, you do not need to light up. But those of us that slave through school to get a good job deserves a toke every once in a while.
If you haven't smoked weed then don't start now.
"Weed Song"
[Krayzie Bone]
Take me
Higher, higher, baby
Can you feel it?? (feel it, feel it, feel it)
Do you feel the same weed high that I feel??
Cuz I'm so high (reefer makes you feel that way)
And I feeling so right
Roll (roll), let's smoke, I got to get high
I been high since the last song (off that la, la, la, la, la, la, la)
And i just been smokin' and smokin'
Smoke another blunt, roll another up
You know that weed can really ease your mind
Every time I smoke good reefer that indo high makes me fly
If everyboby smoked a blunt, relieve the mind, the world could
be a better place
If everybody took a break and we all just got wasted
Toked out (out, out out), smoked out (out, out, out),
choked out (out, out, out), pull another O (out, out, out)
Let's get P-O-D-ded (P-O-D-ded, P-O-D-ded)
[Chorus]
[Bizzy Bone]
The weed can't get no better (no better baby)
[Bizzy Bone]
20 dollar hollars, all day, everyday
Come around my way, you gone want to stay
Weed makes me hungry, happy, and all I can say
Sure I need some more
Don't make we wait, stay awake, fake sleep,
got the weed between the sheets
Catch me, Mary J. blessed me
Open up the dime, stimulate your mind, slide my thumb up the blunt
Open up and what you'll find in there (you don't really want)
I never been in High Times (I never been in High Yimes)
I never been in High Times
but can you tell me that I've been so high all my life
Am I high enough (am I high enough)
Am I high enough (am I high enough)
[Wish Bone]
I remeber being a little thug
Weed, really didn't know what it was
Then I took a puff and I realized
I should always, stay high
The weed (the weed), makes me feel alright (alright)
If you feel like i feel, I got half on yo dime
If you got weed smoke it, I'm a real weed smoker
If it's mine then I would
since its yours you could, you should
If I ain't there when you blaze a blunt nigga huh, please think of me
Cuz you know I nigga like to get high (high), high and free
Smokin' all night, feelin' all right
Bone Thugs get high, so high
High, high, all night, high, high
So high
[Flesh-N-Bone]
Oh my, oh my, oh my, oh my my my my
I know you wonder why I do it. Love the sky
And I soar up so high
This mornin' I was in my bed
Bangin' and ringin' inside my head
I wanted to make love to you baby, but last night I got P-O-Ded instead
So please don't go away, that's all I got to say
Is I gotta have you mary j
Such a heavenly feelin' I get when i'm taking fat ass blunts to the brain
Oh darlin' I'm goin insane, and I really wish we can
Kick it at home in America, like it was on in amsterdam
You heard enough, you heard it all, nothin' but a, a really thug nigga
Nothin' less than a killa, I'm out in front makin' my scrilla
I'm happy to know , the slide is the ball, and kick as strong as me
Be rippin' the bong like me, can hit it as long as me
[Layzie Bone]
And when I need to free my mind
I can find, satisfaction in a bag of weed
Everything I need, leave it to the trees
It can make me feel better, and every day I wake
Niggas rollin' up blunts, and mo blunts, and mo blunts
And I keep a case of Swisher Sweets in the trunk
So when I'm rollin', smokin', chokin', just floatin'
Through the city in my drop top
Glock cocked, rollin', just rollin'
Me and mary jane
Its my world, its my thang
The way she penetrates my brain
Buddah, done blessed me with game
Good game, you wanna chop it up,
we can kick it, smoke a fatty to the dome
Nigga lay high, thugged out, smokin', all, night, long
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