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   XPost: alt.politics.usa   
   From: bliss@sfo.com   
      
   Frito Pendejo wrote:   
   > A VFW wrote:   
   >> You know I was just asking a friend this q.   
   >> One conclusion I had was that "the Man" is threatened by it's use.   
   >> I'm sure that it is harder to "herd" the marijuana smokers.  The drug   
   >> tends to cause you to Question Assumptions.   
   >   
   > I was in San Francisco during the election and the stoners were not only   
   > NOT questioning assumptions, they were drinking the Obama Kool-Aid and   
   > bleating his name like retarded sheep on crack - absolutely convinced   
   > that he would legalize pot if elected.   
      
   	Well that is generally what happens before elections when the   
   voters see that they have only one good choice anyway.   
      
   >   
   > Needless to say, they aren't too happy with him now.  The non-stop drug   
   > orgy of the Dictator Bush era has come to an end, and the Haight-Ashbury   
   > district now resembles a ghost town after a year-long police crackdown,   
   > and weed is harder to get than AIDS on Castro Street.   
      
   	Business is slow there and in a lot of other places in San Francisco.   
   I think the economy and uncertainty might have something to do with   
   it.  I think smokers of cannabis are still going strong here and other   
   places.  But with the rotten weather I don't expect many are getting   
   social on Haight Street.   
   	Haight Street is pushing for a ordinance to inhibit lying down   
   or sitting on sidewalks, which is probably going to be unsustainable   
   in court.  Merchants believe that business is being driven away.   
   	I have seen no statues going up to Obama and why   
   should anyone be at that stage already.   
      
      
   > Fortunately for Chairman Obama, potheads have short memories and come   
   > 2012 they will forget that he promised to never legalize marijuana and   
   > they will vote for him again.   
      
   	I don't know if they will.  He is getting stiff resistance to what   
   he sees as needed programs and reforms and he has already said   
   he would rather be a good one term president than continue as a   
   two term mediocre president..   
   	   
   	And he did stop the raids on medical cannabis dispensaries in   
   states where such has been legalized..   
      
   	Meantime in the East Bay a new grow warehouse store has   
   opened and Mount Reagan is being proposed as a new name for   
   Mount Diablo.  A serious proposal put forward by a devout Xian.   
   And the day that goes by without some mention of cannabis   
   in the San Francisco Bay Area is rare.   
      
   	later   
   	bliss   
   	   
      
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