Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for July 05, 2011

Are they in California?

This is gonna be a fuuuuuuuun visit …

Sorry, no weed – but we’ve got Cocoa Puffs!

Well, chocolate has cannabinoids in it…

The chocolate will soothe him until the carbs knock him out. Perfect.

Looks like Ray’s lookin’ to score some Medicated Goo, with particular mention to Uncle Lou.

True, Richard. Polarization and partisanship have reached the point in this country now that, as the old joke goes, if the press of one side reports “John Doe Walks on Water” the comment on the other side will predictably be, “John Doe Can’t Swim”.

Sam awoke to a brave new world.

@pouncingtiger,No, they’re in Massachusetts (note the Walden reference yesterday.)

This is a terrific critique, Richard Russell. Well done!

Uncle Ray, if you need to calm down with weed, I am sure you carry a stash don’t you? I mean……..duh…

Weed? How about a nice Dandelion from the yard, Uncle Ray?

What, heroin too much for you?

I hate to point this out but Hemingway’s Nick Adams went through this long before the Vietnam media talked science into making this a disorder. As a small child at the soda fountain (yeah, that long ago) I accidentally popped a balloon next to a guy and he jumped and nearly went after me. Mom explained he had “shell shock” from fighting in KOREA. More have it now only because we have chosen to actually try to deal with the issue instead of following the grand foolishness of “man up!”

I became legal in Michigan as of yesterday….call me Ray…..

Our family knew about this long ago. My Dad was a Seabee who went in with the Marines and went through the bloody fighting on Iwo Jima in WWII. When he would wake from the nightmares, he would go downstairs and wash and wax the kitchen floor to relieve the stress by doing something physical. We had the slickest kitchen floor in the neighborhood.

Careful Sam… I don’t think he’s in any condition to be going coo-coo for Cocoa Puffs.

Looks like my wife’s 4th. She said I didn’t hit her this time so the VA must be helping. Yeah, gabapentin, prosacin, buspirone and oxycodone.Would have made it out but she got my leg. She can out walk me and talk really calm. Fireworks,oh my!

@whitecamry, my question about California was referencing to their marijuana issue.

@Varnes: Doesn’t ‘Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness’ cover your being ‘legal’, or is it a recent ruling on the MMJ law that’s helping?Local jurisdictions, even here in LA County, are more or less (and usually less) supportive of MMJ, giving it the same tar from the old brush of the failed Drug Warriors in their desperate attempt to maintain the status quo.It is an unfortunate fact that, just like Prohibition in the nineteen-twenties, MJ Prohibition has, by placing this ubiquitous plant beyond the pale, corrupted the police, politicians, and the courts, with disastrous effects.It’s called a Weed for good reason; during WWII, it was encouraged to grow uninhibited along rail lines as camouflage, and will still pop up in the darndest places all on its own.

Dog gone right pbarnrob, and Queen Victoria used it for cramps.