It is so sad, but very true. To my fellow Americans that are left there under the repression of unjust laws my heart goes out. Even to those in states that have tried to throw the yoke and found themselves tethered still harder by a repressive central authority.

What is most sad is that many here are in countries where the yoke has been loosened or even thrown off for the moment. Here I sit with the most succulent bud, free to abuse it as I wish, and my brothers and sisters left in my own land are the ones abused for thinking about it.

I have so much difficulty in looking at this bud here and telling it that it is a crime. The very thought that holding it makes me evil is just too strange to comprehend. I am thought of, and am actually a nice guy, no evil in me. So how come when I hold this bud in the USA it is a crime? Where is the damaged party?

Well, the only party damaged is the one they bring their paranoid SWAT teams to. Damn, just for smoking a joint!

I am born in Illinois and if I were there I would be in jail for 17 years for that joint, no medical or recreational excuse, or the fact that I live from writing about it would help. What is wrong with my country?

Anyway, please all you Americans watch yourselves. We love you; we all hope we all get good bud. You are the most vulnerable here and we hope through our cavalier attitude you do not get careless. Your house is not your private castle anymore.