The pot must be working like a good
gateway drug should. Denver activists are planning to make the already
mile-high city even higher. They recently turned in ballot petitions that they
hope will be the first step towards decriminalizing the use of psychedelic psilocybin
mushrooms, more commonly called “magic mushrooms.” If
the initiative is approved by voters in the May municipal mushroom election,
the city would become the first in the nation to essentially legalize the hallucinogens,
for those 21 and older, by barring the use of city resources to impose
penalties on those who ingest them.
Members
of the group Decriminalize Denver claim they have collected well over 8,000
ballot petition signatures. 4,726 verified
signatures from registered voters
are required to make the ballot. Activists have hope, since similar strategy
was employed to decriminalize marijuana usage leading up to the voters’
approval of legalization in 2012.
Supporters
say “’shrooms” can reduce stress and opioid use.
However,
according to hallucinogens.com and the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, a
person high on mushrooms can experience “extreme tension, anxiety and
restlessness,” as well as “frightening hallucinations, confusion,
disorientation, paranoia, agitation, depression, panic, and terror.” That
doesn’t seem very relaxing. Moreover, psychological effects of magic mushrooms
include “perceptual distortions, auditory, and visual hallucinations, melding
of the senses, difficulty focusing, impaired judgment, sense of detachment from
body, altered perception of space and time, inability to distinguish fantasy
from reality, and melding of past experiences with present.”
Egads! This
may explain the entire Democratic Party!
The site goes
on to say that the effect of magic mushrooms can be dangerous (duh!) and “sometimes fatal.” It
also says that those who take the mushrooms “may not even realize what they are
doing,” and that “a person is more likely to engage in dangerous activities
while on the drugs, since their reality will be completely distorted.” It adds
that “it may take days for their brain chemicals to return to normal,” and
helpfully notes that “this can have a negative impact on their life and daily
responsibilities.”
Not to
mention their underwear. Or their families.
But, what the
hell. We’ve already legalized abortion, covenantial gay marriage, marijuana (in
some states), and illegal immigration. We’re on a roll! Why stop at magic
mushrooms? It would be illogical at this point. Let’s legalize crack cocaine,
bestiality, heroine, polyamory, crystal meth, pedophilia, Krokodil and necrophilia
while we’re at it, too.
There could
be a new “Rocky Mountain high” coming. “Dude, I’m like so hungry after these
spliffs. Pass the mushrooms!”
Cue John
Denver. But stay off its highways.
But the Colorado mushrooms are so fine
I've seen giant dragons in the sky
And read to cyclops and unicorns such sweet lullabies
Rocky mountain high (Colorado)
I've seen giant dragons in the sky
And read to cyclops and unicorns such sweet lullabies
Rocky mountain high (Colorado)
It's Colorado rocky mountain high
I've seen it rainin' fire in the sky
Friends around the campfire and everybody's high
Rocky mountain high (love my mushrooms)
Rocky mountain high (mushrooms)
Rocky mountain high
Rocky mountain high
Rocky mountain high (magic mushrooms)
Rocky mountain high (yeah!)
I've seen it rainin' fire in the sky
Friends around the campfire and everybody's high
Rocky mountain high (love my mushrooms)
Rocky mountain high (mushrooms)
Rocky mountain high
Rocky mountain high
Rocky mountain high (magic mushrooms)
Rocky mountain high (yeah!)
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(Ironically,
the article I linked to was directly below one titled “Smoking in U.S. at
Record Low” on an amalgamated news site recently. We are legalizing dangerous
and illicit drugs and behavior even as we criminalize free speech, Christian
expression and self-defense. What does that say about a society?)
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