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Church of Jeff

-- The cannabis community, especially the former/current legalization campaigners and activists, and especially the medical marijuana users find the idea of "reefer madness" and the stupid and lazy stoner stereotype extremely offensive.
We are responsible adults with careers, families, and responsibilities and we contribute to society.
THESE STEREOTYPES ARE USED AGAINST US ALL THE TIME.
It allows everyone to dismiss, ignore, and ridicule us. It prevents change to cannabis laws.

@jeffowski i used to do private tutoring of calculus and differential equations when i was younger. maybe not responsible, but 3 of my students are professional engineers and one of them called me up years later to tell me that i taught them how to think about math. anyone who thinks weed makes me stupider or lazier hasn't tried weed or they're revealing their own character.

@jeffowski With a moment of reflection and distance, I now wish to apologize for making an reference in your mentions that you then informed me to be offensive to you. That wasn't appropriate for me to do. Now that I know better, I pledge to act more considerately.

@log -- This is why I apologized. I thought you were trolling a bit and snapped back. Thank you for being a person that is open to growth. Please also reach out and keep me in line if something I post is offensive AND false.
I am bombastic on purpose on specific topics, but I NEVER want to be cruel or provide information that is NOT FACTUAL.
I expect my friends to keep me to a higher standard, and I am glad my friends try to improve and be better too.

@jeffowski
Med MJ is too fuckin high in Virginia. People are buying out of state..Gouging is rampant in all things for sale.

@GatekeepKen -- I've been saying that many of the cannabis legalization efforts are DESIGNED TO FAIL.
The people against it couldn't stop it so they set up rules that make it impossible to make a profit, impossible for consumers to afford it, etc.
And the major issue is that once the vote for legalization happens, the "cannabis voter" goes away and doesn't participate again, making this process easier for prohibitionists to make sure it is unsustainable and unprofitable.

@jeffowski
the problem here is Gov. Bumpkin. He put a block on the law that legalized it. How the fuck can he change the law. Dealers have left and closed up shpos they bet their lives on.

@jeffowski

I was a Marijuana Addict for 58 years, injecting three joints a day. I am happy to admit my habit and I stand firmly against the EVILS of Marijuana addiction... ☹️

Aside from Reefer Madness (A Documentary if ever there was one) here's another true note on the evils of marijuana addiction

@Ulzana and the worst of all: you are still missing opportunities and don't even notice! like you had the chance to mark this as satire. You didn't. Instead you risk to trigger the shit out of some people, not caring that they might get heart attacks. *fatal* heart attacks. because of you. because of your former addiction. just another proof how dangerous Marijuana is: It kills innocent people around you even long after your consumption!

@jeffowski It makes me absolutely insane. Cannabis is serious medicine. Stoner culture cheapens it all. I am not a "stoner", I use this medicine appropriately to help me navigate multiple health issues and pain.

@JenWojcik @jeffowski

Little bit of column A, little bit of column B... :>

@jeffowski yeah, and that crap about marijuana killing brain cells; everyone knows it’s alcohol that does that

@DanadasGrau
*Why I wish I could smoke/vape cannabis at social gatherings instead of drinking (to deal with my extreme social anxiety).

@jeffowski

The idea that the oppressed and marginalized can gain respect and inclusion by acting "better" than their oppressors is foolish and naive.

Cannibas and the 'drug war' was created by Nixon as a wild card to keep poor, black neighborhoods in check. 'Best behavior' has/had no effect on the effort.

Seeing how much money can be made by white people has become the incentive to regulate (although unfortunately not fully legalize) it.

Look around! Pot is legally sold and openly smoked throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Your overconcerned stereotypes were NO impediment to its current legal availability.

Don't try to hallmonitor the pot community. They can't hear you, and wouldn't care if they did.

@jeffowski The fact that I have to hide my usage around family and others, but I'm encouraged and reminded to take other meds, is highly depressing. The stigmas are ridiculous and I hate being socially penalized for mitigating symptoms of my disability. What, you want us to be miserable?

@jeffowski

Carl Sagan was a user and advocate of marijuana. Under the pseudonym "Mr. X", he contributed an essay about smoking cannabis to the 1971 book Marihuana Reconsidered. The essay explained that marijuana use had helped to inspire some of Sagan's works and enhance sensual and intellectual experiences.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sag

en.wikipedia.orgCarl Sagan - Wikipedia

@jeffowski it's just as if not more offensive to struggling people to implicate that non-functioning people would be bad or worth less than other human beings. Makes ma wonder if "Church of Jeff" is an alias for "Church of Ayn Rand"

@Pentropy --because Cheech and Chong represent those people too?
Fuck off.

@jeffowski one of my favorite people in the universe is an every day almost constant weed user. He’s brilliant. He’s funny. He accesses parts of his brain I’d never be able to do myself.
The weed keeps that access manageable. It helps him focus and cuts out the anxiety that comes with his brilliance. He’s beyond productive, he’s genius.

@Magooish -- I'm a sufferer of extreme depression and anxiety. I went off all my meds in 2013 so that I could reset and found that cannabis worked great. It's been eleven years and am a constant consumer with no "High" at all.

@jeffowski everyone is different and we all prefer conformity, right? But imagine the peace we’d have in this world if we understood that what people do to create the best optimum life for themselves ( without harming others) is what we should encourage.
I’d never be productive smoking or ingesting weed even occasionally. But I am 1000% ok with anyone who needs/wants to for themselves.

@jeffowski
Excellent point of view. Any statistics to back this up. Wild be an interesting argument.