Romancing the Stoned
Ross Rebagliati is an idiot. There, I’ve said in five words what the vast majority of the sane world thinks. Who said I’m not economical with my words? Racin’ Ross, as you are aware, is the federal Liberal candidate in the Okanagan and his remarkable penchant for being a complete ass, is serving the Liberals well, believe me.
Here’s a guy who won a gold medal for, of all meaningless feats, snowboarding, and had it stripped away because he tested positive for marijuana. They should have knocked this clod over the head with his medal instead. Rather than being a role model to young kids, instead of running at least a moderately coherent campaign, what does Mr. Rebagliati do?
He commits to an interview, where he actually utters that marijuana “can be part of a healthy lifestyle”. The story is detailed on the great Ezra Levant’s website. You can read about it, here. And you can certainly see just how WRONG this idiot Rebagliati is about marijuana and what a terrible message he’s sending to young people, here. A recent study confirming that young people who smoked grass were FOUR times as likely to become schizophrenic isn’t enough evidence that marijuana not only shouldn’t be legalized, but that the only plausible explanation for such incredibly foolish advocacy is from marijuana users themselves, in politics, media, etc.
Would you vote for a man who tells you that getting drunk is part of a healthy lifestyle? No? Well, Rotting Ross wants you to vote for him even though he gets high.
Those Liberals sure know how to attract a quality candidate, that supports what’s best for coming generations.
Ross Rebagliati is living proof that, as I have stated umpteen times, it’s not called DOPE for nothing. When you do drugs, that’s what you are, a DOPE.
Why do individuals who participate in 5 minutes of fame, feel they have the qualifications to run for politics. I’ve said it before, there is no profession (if you want to call it that) in the world, where one day you can be a homemaker doing dishes and the next day you can be appointed the Minister of some portfolio. People like Rebagliati make me sick. You get your picture in the paper or on TV a few times and all of sudden you have the knowledge to manage millions of dollars of taxpayers money. Give me a break. And please let’s hope those individuals who will probably vote for this guy based on his QUALIFICATIONS.
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You nailed it my friend.
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He nailed it. But wait, there’s more!.
Actually, it’s not only the candidates, but the starry eyed Organisers who want to bag The Big One -the “Star Candidate” to earn the express ride to a political goodie. Even though the “Star Candidate”
doesn’t have much in him or her when it comes to what it takes
to win, and become a real MP (or MLA) that actually serves the community rather than him/herself (and wanting that Cabinet Post).
Success in sports (and in business) does not nessesarily mean success in the Legislature or at the Cabinet Table (or even out there in door to door canvassing during a campaign). There’s alot that needs to be looked at in a candidate, inside and out.
Too often these “expert” Field Organisers try to find The Big Candidate and convince the Party to “adjust” the rules to “make it easy” for
the so-called Star Candidate, at the behest of the local membership who know the riding better than the Field Organiser does.
I’ve seen many Star Candidates flame out and a few Star Candidates end up like a meteorite plummeting to earth.
Watch for Ross to go down in Flames.
But AT — Politics is the only area that we know that failure is actually rewarded!! We’ve seen that before.
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And we continue to see it. It’s sad, but true.
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Back in my early 20′s a co-worker asked if I wanted to save some rent and get a place together. He was a good guy I thought, who smoked “a little” pot and I didn’t think it would be a problem so I said sure.
After moving in, I quickly learnt that “a little” pot was actually quite a bit. He used a pipe and hot-knifed hash and oil from the stove burners. I would say he did it every way possible but I don’t remember any bong and frankly I’m not sure what other ways there are.
I discovered that he smoked up:
1) in the morning before work,
2) during lunch hour he would make a quick trip home,
3) after work-before supper,
4) after supper it was his “cigarette”,
5) he hit it again about 9pm,
6) then right before bed at 11:00pm,
7) and finally he’d awake in the middle of the night he’d get up and do it one that time before starting his day “the next morning”.
One day I arrived home after work pre-supper and found him sitting at our kitchen table with his pipe in about 7 pieces – I thought he broke it. Apparently I’m naive or stupid, take your pick. There he was scraping out any residue lacking the delicacy of a surgeon, hands trembling away.
So I asked him if he broke his pipe and his answer was no, that the city police [obviously not here in the lower mainland] had put the squeeze on the dealers and that they weren’t selling to anyone because they didn’t know who the rat was. Go figure, a dealer not selling because of a rat, oh how times have changed. At any rate, he couldn’t get any pot and the last of what he had was burnt to the walls of his pipe.
What I learnt that day was:
a) that little pipe actually had 7 pieces that came apart, and
b) that my co-worker was addicted to the drug everyone claims is not addictive and is for the most part harmless.
So fast forward a few weeks when I’m having some of the best sex of my young adult life, with an amazing ginger-haired goddess and my roommate is not, and still without weed, and I learnt to disbelieve another fallacy told by the pro-pot lobby:
c) that people that smoke pot just get the muchies and love to giggle.
My roommate was angry, violent and starting to scare me and my girlfriend. I moved out. He was 100% addicted to the stuff and as unstable as could be without it.
Fast forward about 10 years and when checking in with a different co-worker from back then, this guy was still smoking a ridiculous amount of pot, his life was a mess, and he looked like he was 50 at age 33 [see Marc Emery for a picture of what this is like].
This is long enough, see part II in another comment.
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Jeez Alex,
Have the Libs been talking to the NDP about how to recruit candidates??
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Apparently so…
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Part II.
A few years later I was working in a different business and would occasionally go drinking with a few co-workers. I was close to some, not so close to others. One of my close friends [we've remained close for almost 20 years now] was buddies with a third, that I was never that fond of but tolerated due to our mutual friend. Let’s call this guy Ed. Ed, liked to smoke “a little pot”.
You should be able to guess where we’re going with this one….
One day I was out with the boys when Ed wanted a smoke. Exhibiting good manors Ed passed his joint around and let his buddies who wanted to, have a toke. Shortly there after Ed became enraged at the thought that one of the boys took a pull, but didn’t inhale. Basically wasting his pot. I thought a full fledged brawl was going to break out. Giggles and munchies my pasty white ass.
All of this taking place shortly thereafter a stimulating conversation between a bunch of men [sans children], 2 decades removed from Disney stories, trying to recant the tales of Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella. One would have never guessed the anger and possible violence that was about to take place.
This was one of the last times I ever allowed myself to be anywhere Ed was based on my previous experience with my old roommate. Through our mutual friend who stayed friends with Ed for another 4-5 years, I heard that Ed and his marijuana addiction spun out of control until he found some help, but not before he lost his wife and kids and any job he could get.
These aren’t the only two guys I’ve known to ruin their lives because of the stuff. In fact I can safely say that I know more people that have been addicted to pot, than to alcohol.
Now maybe that’s because pot use has been more prevalent among my peers during my adult life than alcohol, but nonetheless I get quite infuriated when I hear people like shithead Ross, profess the wonders of maryjane [not the name of my ginger-haired goddess by the way].
I’ll add that not one of the many people I’ve known with a pot addiction have had an alcohol problem. And although their drug use stopped with marijuana I am a firm believer that pot is a gateway drug to other more harmful drugs. I would also argue that many addicts stay on pot and continue its use because of the lies of it being harmless.
Now that Ross is professing the wonders of marijuana while confirming everyone’s doubt that “he didn’t inhale” and that it was “second-hand smoke”, perhaps the Olympics should revoke his medal in the same they revoked Marion Jones medals for finally admitting to steroid use.
I sincerely hope he gets humiliated during election time and crawls back under the rock from which he came.
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Thank you so much for sharing this. Much appreciated.
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Look at the bright side. He makes as much sense as Ujjal Dosanjh or Hedy Frey.
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You’re not wrong there!
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Damn; nothing I can disagree with or add to there!
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Whew!
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Wonder if Ross would have a joint meeting with Iggy and the National Campaign Chair for the Liberals.
Weed out the policies that would be used in the campaign grow-op?
Is a long time volunteer Mary Jane going to run that operation?
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That’s waaaaaaaaaaaaay too funny!
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Snowboard boy is just a name to put by a Liberal candidate in that riding. His chances of beating Stockwell Day in the next election are no better than the chance that the Toronto Maple Leafs will win the Stanley Cup this year.
I was surprised that the MSM made such a big deal of him becoming the Liberal candidate in the first place. I guess it was his connection to the olympics that was the driving force.
As to the subject of “pot”, there is a rumour going around that California will begin debating its legalization and taxation in the very near future. Apparently the Arnold is all for it, and with their financial woes one would suspect that this may become a reality. If it’s true, it should be a very interesting debate. As they say, “stay tuned”.
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If Arnold tried that, he’ll be finished. You heard it here first. Insanity…
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I do not say that I condone it. I prefer the liquid form of escapism supplied by the LDB, but this rumor has been circulated around for some time now, and one has to suspect that there may be something to it. Desperate times bring desperate measures, and California is sucking the big one, financially speaking.
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I’m with you pal. All this nonsense about how drugs are the same as alcohol. Sure, if you’re off the deep end with anything you’re a lost cause. But look at some of these people! They are zombies. If you and I have a few libations, fro medicinal purposes of course, it’s NOT the same. Ask any addiction doc and that’s what they’ll tell you. I agree with completely.
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Palin and Rebagliati, this is truly the seventh sign.
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BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! BRILLIANT!!!
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“Palin and Rebagliati, this is truly the seventh sign.”
Perhaps not as far gone as the Seventh Sign of the Apocalypse, as far a Ross Nickle-bagliati is concerned anyway. Wasn’t fourth of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in the Sixth Revelation was also known as the pale or “green” horse.
Palin on the other hand…
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Yes, on the other hand. I’ve been watching her commentaries on Fox NEws this last week. I’m afraid I may have been wrong…
She’s much worse than I could have possibly imagined.
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I keep on hearing arguments for medical marijuana (some which make sense) but what I cant understand is why medical marijuana has to be smoked.
With the ingredient in marijuana which creates the “dopey” effect being THC why cant people who have been allowed to consume marijuana legally be given a tablet of THC. Smoking marijuana has been proven to be just as damaging to the body as tobacco and some instances even more.
I can just see someone who has been allowed to smoke medical marijuana for stress sue the government 20 years down the road when they get lung cancer from all the tokes.
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The real problem with these people is that they lie about the actual problems associated with smoking dope. And the lazy MSM don’t bother to do any digging, because whole slew of them have spent their lives in the same haze. I have often wondered how other drugs (pills, etc.) are just not effective enough and grass is…it’s a rhetorical question a doctor put to me once, and when I asked why, he looked at me a smiled. “Why do you think?” he said. “There isn’t a single person who advocates for legalization that isn’t either an active marijuana user or an occasional marijuana user, who’d just like the freedom. Meanwhile, millions of children will sink their lives into drugs. It’s inevitable. The effects long and short-term are very bad” Frightening.
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On some National Geographic program on drugs about 1 year ago, they interviewed a doctor in Israel who argues that smoking pot is not an effective means of treating any illness.
He explains rather convincingly that because dosages and delivery cannot be guaranteed when smoking the drug in any way, that any claims that it works are baseless.
The doctor runs a lab where he grows marijuana and removes the active chemicals to manufacture pills that are controlled by doses such as 25mg on up to 200mg. He is currently testing these pills with an aim to eliminating the argument for smoking the drug, which is bad for your lungs and your brain cells.
He hopes that in the future dosage will be controlled by actual doctors instead of bullshit pharmacies [in California] that are allowed to sell you bags of weed for whatever you claim ails you.
Of course the medical marijuana advocates are against this guy because “big pharma” would take over their “home grown” compassion clubs.
I call bullshit, some people just want an excuse to sell pot and to get high. Frankly I hope the conservatives are in power when the pills are ready so they can end this farce created by the Libs.
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I saw the same thing and agree with you. Thx for sharing this Glen. Pls come again.
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Romancing the Stoned, next for Rag bag, Romancing the Counts Bone.
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Easy, easy, steady, steady….
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