Only 2 states have legalized recreational marijuana use and they both happen to be in the Super Bowl....Coincidence? I don't think so. Denver vs. Seattle: Do We Call It The Weed Bowl, Salad Bowl, 420 Bowl, Chronic Bowl …? Posted on January 20, 2014 at 11:23 am by David Downs The weekend’s playoff football victories by the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks have created a teachable moment about the two leading marijuana law reform states in America, as well as a windfall for those who love dumb puns. “Weed Bowl”, “Salad Bowl”, “420 Bowl”, “Chronic Bowl”, weed heads can’t get enough of the delicious matchup. Allen St. Pierre, the executive director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, jokingly suggested that the game be renamed “The Super Oobie Doobie Bowl, McClatchy reports. Pot law reform advocates are jumping on the global event to note how, despite D.E.A. hype about the apocalyptic effects on pot, the two best teams in the NFL are from the most stony regions. NFL Super Bowl XLVII kicks off Sunday, February 2 at 6:25 p.m. on FOX (that’s 4:25 p.m. Mile High time) at MetLife Stadium, in East Rutherford, New Jersey, pitting the NFL’s best defense (Seahawks) versus the NFL’s best offense (Broncos). The teams are incredibly closely matched. The last time there was a spread this low for a Super Bowl was 32 years ago, according to VegasInsider’s history. The 49ers were just one-point favorites against the Bengals in Super XVI in January of 1982, ESPN reports. The National Organization to the Reform of Marijuana Laws will spin the game as a message to the NFL to stop promoting alcohol and beer commercials as the safe choice over smoking weed, ESPN reports. That comes at an auspicious time, given the fact that President Obama stated in the New Yorker this week that weed was no more dangerous than alcohol. “Hopefully there will be a break in the beer commercials for some discussion about marijuana laws,” said Mason Tvert, spokesman for the pro-legalization Marijuana Policy Project in Denver, told McClatchy. For example, players with the Seahawks and the Broncos can’t smoke, as their NFL contracts prohibit legal pot. In September, MPP bought a billboard next to Denver’s Mile High Stadium, urging the NFL to “stop driving players to drink”. Pot offers “a safer choice” for athletes, MPP notes, and has launched a petition to pressure NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to change the league’s marijuana policy. “I think there will be more references to pot going into the Super Bowl week media hype than any previous NFL game in history,” Tvert told McClautchy.
lol....A few weeks ago I thought the same thing, and am amused as hell to see it actually happen. The War on weed is on the fast-track to being yet another deplorable episode in our nations history, but it will still take a while for some people to get the memo. Federal decriminalization is going to happen eventually, but there will be quite a few states that will keep it illegal on a state-level.
Absolutely right. I do not partake myself but I would like to see it legal everywhere. The money made on the taxation of the product combined with all the money saved by not prosecuting and imprisoning offenders in this silly war on drugs will save the states millions annually. 1 out of every 8 prison drug offenders are for marijuana. Imagine not imprisoning that many people. In 2007 the Department of Justice reported that there were 1,841,182 drug arrests in the United States; the report also stated that there were more drug abuse arrests than any other category of offenses. Marijuana arrests accounted for 47.4% of the drug abuse arrests. This allows us to estimate that about 872,720 persons were arrested for marijuana offenses. Eighty-nine percent of these arrests were for possession. The 2007 arrest data is even worse than 2006 when 829,627 people were arrested for marijuana. In 2005 there were 786,545 marijuana arrests, meaning that the number of arrests increased by 86K in just two years. Clearly, marijuana is an intense focus of police interest and activity; far more, apparently, than the less important crimes occurring at the same time on Wall Street.
Don't forget shootings on both sides (law and lawless), and the creation of a murder-at-will state in Mexico (and other countries). It's not just the police and "druggies" shooting it out, it's vacationers getting murdered for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The War on drugs, specifically the demands America put on other countries in our region to fight the fight for us, or else, has increased the chances of being murdered while on vacation in those areas significantly. In other words: It's destabilized the region, turning it into a pseudo-Afghanistan, in some areas. Not convinced? Think it's complete bs? no problem, take a few weeks of r&r down there, bring the kids and the dog too. It's your funeral.
I think Thom Hartman is absolutely correct when he says we have to stop treating drug abuse as a criminal offense and start looking at it as a mental health issue. People don't medicate themselves because they are happy or doing well, they do it because they have problems that aren't being addressed. Stigmatizing drug use only helps the private prison system. Keep prisons for hardened criminals not people with medical issues.
Typically, drugs (any chemical compound that alters perception) are initially used as a means of recreation, by anyone from any class and level of mental dysfunction, but abuse occurs and mental health issues can indeed arise from that abuse. To be clear here, even something as innocuous as chocolate can be (and is, in some circles) considered a drug, as it produces euphoria in the user. That sensation is, by it's nature, addictive and people do have mental health issues when abusing it, albeit typically "mild" compared to other drugs like alcohol, cocaine and heroin.
Drink any coffee....ever? Ever take an aspirin? Once again, right-wing extremists have no sense of reality, and the addictive qualities of a variety of "over-the-counter" drugs are disregarded by them out-of-hand...because they are druggies and can't see reality. "Poor" pathetic bastards ...LOL
Sorry to hear that. I have experience one directly (plus at least twice indirectly) and witnessed the other. Believe me, there is no comparison. Heroin withdrawal will kill all by itself and anyone using heroin as much as cigarettes will not live a year.
Thanks guys! She was diagnosed with terminal cancer over a year ago. We've had a long time to get use to the idea of her death. It's actually a relief when someone in that much pain passes on. Thanks for the condolences.
LOL I take more drugs than I care to mention, my latest is morphine patches 24/7 and they kindly up'd the dosage for me from 5mg/per hour to 10 and I want more But in all honesty the only thing that does ease the pain for me is a simple cigarette but they tell me I cant smoke them as they will kill me LOL
Geeeeez. Nic patches don't help? Did they ever explain what happened on that first hike? Seemed like QB didn't even know it was coming. Was it snapped too soon or did QB not know his own call? If he knew it was coming you would expect he'd at least try to grab it.
Wouldn't it have been funny to end the score at something like 42-0? I was really rooting for a tie though, 420 to 420, but that's the fuzzy granola talkin'.
