{"id":204692,"date":"2015-06-22T06:06:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T20:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=204692"},"modified":"2015-06-22T06:06:32","modified_gmt":"2015-06-21T20:06:32","slug":"your-brain-on-dope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/your-brain-on-dope\/","title":{"rendered":"Your brain on dope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eat it, drink it, inhale it, smoke it, shoot it, patch it.<\/p>\n<p>So Ambrose Bennett and the Hemley couple desire for you to do it. How? Simple. As his very first official act in office Sen. Sixto Igisomar is lucky enough to get his \u201cmedical\u201d marijuana bill passed into law courtesy of his majority GOP dopplegangers in congress up on the hill. No matter what, soon it\u2019s open season for full pop, toke up recreational pot in the streets. As Slick puts it, \u201cqualified\u201d patients with debilitating medical conditions \u201cAre not subject to arrest, prosecution or penalty.\u201d Isn\u2019t that a relief, a get-out-of-jail ticket for dopers. Start with the good ol\u2019 boys up on the hill they need it the most. What\u2019s next, legislative bong sessions called to order? It\u2019s harmless, right? So swear the Hemleys, Bennett, and the pot smokers they know so well. Do it, get stoned, do a line or two, see if you keep your job the next morning.<\/p>\n<p>Ambrose\u2019s uncountable and tortured linguistic letters to the editor says, everybody and his mother can scoop up the billions in salape, so can you, and I want my cut, too. But wait. By February 2015 Colorado, one of the states specifically singled out by local pro-drugs advocates as being the multi-million, money making \u201cgreen\u201d machine our islands should emulate, is being sued in court by other neighboring states as well as its own citizens to cease and desist sales of recreational drugs. It appears the pro-druggies refuse to understand that the federal \u201csupremacy\u201d laws passed in the 1970s deem the sale and use of drugs is illegal.<\/p>\n<p>What the create-me-a-job Bennett won\u2019t tell you is that on June 18, 2015, the Colorado Supreme Court in a 6-0 decision, upheld the termination of a plaintiff\/employee\u2019s job, a quadraplegic, who sued his employer after failing a random drug test. Why? The plaintiff\/dude tested positive for using \u201cmedical marijuana\u201d pot. His failed defense? Told the justices he has spasms. The point won by the employer? \u201cIf you\u2019re going to blow pot don\u2019t come to work.\u201d Where does the state go from here?The Supreme Court doesn\u2019t make laws so now the Colorado lawmakers must reverse the very same law that Anxious Ambrose so dearly covets for his island brethren and his pockets. But who cares? Go make dough on the sly.<\/p>\n<p>Oddly, Sixto is also declaring a \u201cwar on ice\u201d because rampant crimes caused by meth heads really and truly bother him. Huh? Contradictory, slick. Why? Marijuana in cookies or brewed as tea, hookah (bong) pipes or just puffed anywhere at any time is a bad, bad problem and can cause brain damage no matter what Ambrose and Hemley claim. Look it up.<\/p>\n<p>Recently there was a cute cartoon appearing in the local news rag called \u201cMarianas Milk\u201d whose editorial paints a picture of \u201cMeth mouth\u201d users. Pay close attention because it is very, very real. And they all became ice\/shabu addicts after their first puff\/use of weed.  My friends do it so it must be okay, they convince themselves. Too bad.  That\u2019s the allure, the hook until it is too late. Drugging is not the way to end the day. What\u2019s the lesson here? Don\u2019t play with matches.<\/p>\n<p>How do you know it\u2019s true? Google \u201cmarijuana\u201d and \u201ccrystal methamphetamine addiction.\u201d Read all the articles. Next, download all the photographs of the meth mouth users. Then stick \u2018em up on your refrigerator as a constant reminder for you and the kids. And while you\u2019re at it, Google, \u201cU.S. Controlled Substance Act (Schedule II). Eye-opener. Free-base burns? Crack babies born? Meth and cannabis addicts nodding off and stacked-up alongside feeble man\u2019amkos gasping for air in the already overcrowded waiting room?  Ouch! Something our inept hospital is ill-prepared to control much less fix.  Then see what\u2019s going to happen when the casino turns on its lights and the local pushers and Chinese connection get a real good handle on things.<br \/>\nThe truth is out there if you seek to find it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lee Andersen<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Via email<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eat it, drink it, inhale it, smoke it, shoot it, patch it. 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