Obviously this city worker’s dosage needs to be adjusted!
City officials are scrambling to “correct” the mistaken notion that the road painter couldn’t spell: he simply mixed up the stencils numbered 1, 2, and 3!
And none of his companions noticed as they walked away! (When was the last time you saw a road-painting crew composed of any less than 3 workers?)
© 2026 – SoulSequel
26 responses to “Theree Cheers for Legalized Manij . . . Majria . . . Pot!”
I think what happened is that they had giant stencils and laid them on the ground. What I think should happen is that there should be a single stencil that is labeled school in the back of a semi/ large truck to avoid such mistakes in the future.
For $30/hour ($90 for the three of them) they should not have to think!
But I still think their dosages need to be “adjusted”!
The stencil “school” would require them to lay it down, take about 5 minutes to paint, and then leave cones up to make sure no drivers run it over, another 5 minutes. Drive probably 5 minutes to the next location, and by the time they finish 3 or 4 such roadway signs, come back and collect the 1st set of cones.
what makes you think cannabis has anything to do with this?
or this is just a generalization because you are against marijuana altogether?
It’s a combination of humor, and knowing what things are like in Revelstoke having lived there a short while and knowing the drug situation.
The two main possibilities that come to mind is that the crew was either stupidly incompetent (not just to do it but to drive away and not catch it; and then drive back to it to retrieve their cones and not catch it!), or they were under the influence. The latter seemed kinder.
But are you leaning towards the wantonly stupid because you are for marijuana?
Absolutely. I know it was meant to show the stupidity/humor of the result.
I just think that since cannabis is becoming more ‘accepted’, there is a knee-jerk reaction from those against it to say, “see what your legalizing of pot is doing? See how stupid people who smoke pot are?”
But I do find it refreshing that there are those who will defend it’s uses – both medical and recreational.
But all of this tempest-in-a-teapot comes down to . . . consequences. The consequence of being arrested is “managed”.
But there are still the consequences of public stupidity, losing one’s job, being criminally liable for actions taken while under the influence . . . or of becoming a psychological addict.
Legalizing pot only knocks the little pointy tip off a very large iceberg.
“But there are still the consequences of public stupidity, losing one’s job, being criminally liable for actions taken while under the influence . . . or of becoming a psychological addict.”
– so…. who is to decide the level of my public stupidity? Big Tobacco? Big Pharma? Big Booze? Big Brother? The Government? The King, the Clown or the Colonial?
For the most part, you are.
Ideally with legislation kicking in when our freedom to be stupid has adverse consequences for others.
I actually find marijuana to be very useful, especially compared to alcohol. Alcohol has its’ place, but is causing a great many problems in society at the same time. Really, what people are turning to is not alcohol, but to psychiatric meds. I can state the later does help some people, but the amount of medication people depend on is absurd.
It certainly does have its uses. But it is a powerful psychoactive drug. And despite assertions to the contrary, there are forms of addiction more insidious than just physical addiction.
My concern remains with it’s [pending] re-classification as a government-approved “recreational drug”.
There are already a growing number of reports coming from places where it’s legal or is in the process, of worker shortages because of it. Workers are coming in stoned and being sent home/fired; and new applicants are failing drug tests in rising numbers. They just cannot fill their worksites with enough sober workers to get the job done.
And your pointing out the absurd dosages people are wanting is itself a prime indication that people cannot regulate themselves. In a very real way, it being forbidden by the society (at least in word), provided a measure of self-regulation: one couldn’t parade around stoned and insist, “It’s my right, it’s my right!”.
But really, this post was meant to be more about humor than about pot. It’s interesting that this is where it ended up.
I do not have such a negative view of marijuana, I view it as largely having been much misaligned out of sheer fear and other such motives over the years. It is all part of the absurd “war on drugs”, which I do believe has some potential benefits theoretically, but in practice… really. It is much like 1984. A nation always at war against this, against that, with these sorts of incarceration rates? These are not good trends.
Mexico is being devoured by these absurdities, while drugs are being pitched and pushed constantly on the middle and upper middle classes. Pharmco is enormous and unstoppable. I certainly view Pharmco as a competitor of the message of Christ, after all — I never get sick, and I hardly am even showing any effects of aging. I have survived miraculously from death multiple times, from my youth on up. People are being taught to trust in drugs, not in God.
I am not a Scientologist nor a Christian Scientist, however. I believe drugs, within reason, can be useful. Jesus drank. But, what we have in the US and much less, but through the whole world, is an epidemic of people depending on drugs. Many of which such as psychiatric and pain drugs are often very dangerous, whereas I have not found pot to come anywhere close to many of the mass marketed drugs out there.
As for labels like “gateway drug”, that is a standard of the world, propaganda from the world system. It is an attempt, and quite a successful one, to paint an innocent drug with hardly any side effects as being equivalent to hard drugs like meth, opiates, crack cocaine. As if smoking pot is equivalent to shooting up heroin. Because it is a “gateway drug”. Propaganda.
As for the “recreational” label, well, these dangerous opiate pain meds do not have that label. They are business, big business. “Recreational” tries to paint this as being bad because it makes people feel good. (Pot actually does not make people feel good, per se, but does operate as anti-physical and emotional pain, thereby lessening pain and enabling more pleasure.)
These sorts of thinking are like thinking “good” food must taste very bad, and “bad” food must taste good. Ultimately, it is not the case, it is modern superstitions.
In the 20th century, people would drink quite a lot, and in the 19th century. One could say that was all recreational, but I think they were dealing with terrible lives put upon them. Eighty, ninety hour work weeks, when native aboriginal humans usually might work ten hours.
Hard, dangerous labor, often for people who exploited them severely. Robber barons, and greatly acclaimed millionares like Rockefellar and Carnegie. Terrible people who lived off the misery of countless throngs.
My caution is less on the substance in more on the inevitable abuse. One cannot deny that people crave its power.
But my key caution is upon societies accepting and normalizing of it. It is a very good process for people to not lose sight of the cost of vices.
Considering that in US there are severe drug and alcohol epidemics, I think is a key criteria I am following here. Marijuana vs Alcohol? Marijuana vs opiates? Marijuana vs seemingly countless psychiatric and pain relieving drugs?
Further honesty about marijuana in the US has been far from upheld, as one can peruse decades of clear lying propahanda… where, at best, one might argue simply, ‘some manner of crazed panic spoke for them, filling their imagination.’
This is also true about presentation of human behavior, in general. Where many of the condemning segements of society presented themselves as clean and pure… but, in reality even if they do or did not rely on some manner of literal drug… they relied on terrible thoughts and feelings about their less fortunate fellows and ladies. Such evidence as one saw in the deep racism, or the reliance and love of a brutal and unjust criminal justice system… as well as a system of judgment wherw to be wealthy equates to highest virtue and poor to lowest.
Really having smoked since my teens – normally not smoking – in comparison, I see bi vice there uglier then taking a road trip or bried vacation… or handling severe stress and pain in a non destructive way.
Even Solomon ultimately broke down life to enjoying the simple things like a good woman and glass of wine. The later of which is no better nor worse then a smoke.
Consider that there are abundant in very obvious signs that alcohol and tobacco have serious consequences to self and society.
And here we are going in to legalizing marijuana with the mistaken pop-notion that there are minimal or even zero consequences to self and society.
Considering how desperately difficult it is to get laws taken off the books, we would be wise to leave marijuana illegal but lower the sentences. Still send the message that this is not a wise thing to be doing.
Comparisons of one crutch versus another really don’t impress me; nor should they others.
Let’s be clear than we are talking about a powerful long-lasting drug that is hard to test for and in pairs in ways that a lot of people including users) don’t realize. Let’s be clear that for the sake of mitigating one consequence ( the criminal offense), we will be inviting a host of new problems into our society that we really don’t need. ( consider the employment crunch in western Canada where they could not find job applicants who would test drug free)
And let’s be clear that we are talking about a crutch.
I know all about the “nice” effects. And people really wanting those could always achieve them even with it being against the law. And don’t overlook that this was a huge part of the appeal as well.
Legalizing this stuff just has “long-term mistake” written all over it. And even if huge social consequence manifests 20 years from now it will be next to impossible to get this off the books. (A la prohibition)
I really do not know where to begin here. If your view that marijuana is so dreadfully evil, and you are serious, then I can not even begin to imagine what you really have been thinking of me.
I don’t see us told to condemn others but rather to discern processes of life and death. And then we share and grow together.
Do you remember what Paul said about “all things are permissible for me [in Christ] but not all things are beneficial. All things are permissible but I will be mastered by no thing.”
Over time I found that the perceived benefits were not nearly what I had thought they were. (The spirit of MJ functions mainly through altering perspective and creating Illusions and fantasy).
Health problems started to manifest, some of which are just becoming apparent now decades later. ( I get the test results later this month)
Then I was lead on a rather perverse journey we’re almost every time I toked just a little I was suddenly and unexpectedly required for some kingdom purpose. But the Holy Spirit was not in the temple. It was already occupied by another spirit that insisted it was holy but also “new and improved”: MJ-elically “sooper-charged”! I learned thru harsh lessons that it was not.
And the perversity was in just how bloody regularly this happened! (But to be fair, I’d asked God to take it from me if it wasn’t pleasing in His sight)
MJ is definitely permissible for me. But her benefits are mostly illusionary, and all needs I thought she filled have been met in other ways that don’t render me “unavailable”.
Plus she has this penchant for trying to master me; even unto the defense and justification of using her ( or her using me!).
It’s a ploy I see repeated all the time in others she masters. ( actually addiction researchers considerate and indicative process of MJ dependency)
Today the dependency and addiction is gone.
But I never would have found these locked in MJ’s stupefying grasp.
I was smoking pot recently for awhile, and have been very careful to hide it from my eighteen year old daughter. Because she had terrible problems with drugs and is long “sober”. So, your explanation satisfies me entirely. I am relieved.
I will have to admit the situation for me was as if I was dealing with a close and trusted person who suddenly made a statement that made me wonder if they were not actually, all along, an undercover cop. Or vice versa. If I was working with a deep cover spy, and they felt that I was aware of it, so they threw off a really good cover line to entirely dispell all possible belief (or is it doubt) I had.
I do this all the time. It is just part of who I am.
Which came first? Deep cover spies and agents and superheroes with alternate identities, or Dexters and Hannibals and the like? Or this? Chicken or the egg. Well, the chicken came first, of course.
But, then, one has to cheat at the game to know that.
But going further into this conversation, really would just mean a lot of nonsense being stated which I know is not anything but empty social talk which would unnecessarily strain and stress.
Sadly, so often what I state ends up being like a game. A friend of mine once put it as a game of poker where there are winks, but where sooner or later, the unspoken secrets have to come out. The way she said it, I think, was quite threatening and ominous.
Though, at the time, there remained very dark appearances of events, detailing human kind and their dark and satanic powers of government. Something I distrust.
I’ve just found Integrity less tiring in the long run! I don’t have to remember what I said to whom or what mask I was wearing.
And the reciprocal of this is I will let other people wear whatever masks or play whatever games they feel are necessary: until such time as they might reveal parts of who they truly are.
I speak strongly against MJ because I know what its spirit is: the “taker”, in the theme of the con artist. Gains are illusionary, totally disappearing when the drug is gone. And pre-existing natural abilities become so dependent on the drug that when it is gone you will probably have to start from scratch to recover what was once yours.
It is a far more harmful Vice than is popularly thought. Particularly for those who are active spiritually or creatively.
“I’ve just found Integrity less tiring in the long run! I don’t have to remember what I said to whom or what mask I was wearing.”
“And the reciprocal of this is I will let other people wear whatever masks or play whatever games they feel are necessary: until such time as they might reveal parts of who they truly are.”
You sidestepped my expressions of doubt with all of that, without directly answering the questions. My beliefs about you now do not necessarily mean you have no integrity or are wearing a mask.
Does this mean every undercover agent has no integrity and is not being honest and true to their own self? That is a very harsh condemnation to put on all the fine men and women who serve their country and law enforcement and intelligence.
You are wrong.
Those are among the most demanding jobs in the world, and they provide invaluable service to the world and to God and heaven.
Many who are in prison over marijuana certainly were put there by the efforts of those who work undercover. By your standard, their behavior makes them a worse person then those who used or sold marijuana!
But, stomaching imprisoning people for benign marijuana? That is deplorable. I get most people probably do not even think about that. But, you have, you have indicated you have. Maybe think about it a little deeper. Does anyone really belong in prison merely for smoking or using marijuana? How so?
And what do you know about prison? Have you ever even bothered to look?
But, on undercover agents and the like, you really have gall there. Just more symptoms being expressed from your core failing: pride. Conceit. You vaunt yourself over others by making all of these hard and unfair judgments against them.
I just had a friend leave my workplace a few months ago. He married his wife under a false name and passport. He is one of the finest people I have ever known. Fuck you for judging him for serving God and country. Fuck you.
“I speak strongly against MJ because I know what its spirit is: the “taker”, in the theme of the con artist. Gains are illusionary, totally disappearing when the drug is gone. And pre-existing natural abilities become so dependent on the drug that when it is gone you will probably have to start from scratch to recover what was once yours.”
This is all absurd and crying wolf. The country is facing a massive meth and opiate epidemic, and guys like you are spouting this crap. Claiming to have been a major smoker who had all his problems to blame on marijuana makes it even worse.
You love to mix in this pseudo-spiritual crap, “marijuana is a spirit”. What? What about a couch? Is a couch a spirit too? Or, if someone takes a trip to Bermuda, does that mean Bermuda and the trip taking are spirits? And if the benefits of a vacation or a couch are gone after using, are they then evil spirits?
This reminds me of Jehovah Witnesses who believe record players and television sets are demon possessed.
You are really screwed up. You come off as nice, open mind, and even kind of spiritual, but you are constantly making negative judgments about everyone and throwing it all out in this very evasive, indirect way so you do not have to ever face up to the evil you think of others.
You can work on “the reefer”. A large percentage of cooks in the highest end restaurants at the most intense periods will be hitting pinches/vapin to get through the stress. That’s not lazy or mindless work by any means.
Then there’s roofers. They’re on whatever they can get, and only falling off once or twice……….
The problem isn’t that they smoked weed, it’s that there’s a stupid rule made to keep corrupt money flowing to the corrupt, started so they could have the cheapest immigrant labor possible.
I too have tried it and it is possible. But one is most certainly not at their best.
Especially if some critical life event or decision suddenly manifests.
A single good drag can handicap the faculties. ( if it doesn’t you’re either not doing it right or you’ve grabbed the baggie of catnip!) And how many timers do you know who will limit themselves to one huff?
Most people are capable of moderation during a productive period, even alcoholics. Your definition of -one at their best- doesn’t take into consideration variables, such as anger and anxiety. If worker-bee-B is pissed off and could instantly alter one’s mood to not pissed off, which is the safer worker? The pissed off worker will make impulsive decisions. They could instantly alter their mood, but nooooooooooooooooo, we’re supposed to make do with tobacco and coffee that also without moderation will have instant negative effects, but have little to no mood altering usefulness.
The thing about a crutch is that it can be lost taken away or stolen.
And then you have an angry pissed off employee who was also in the throes of psychological withdrawal.
If things like anger and frustration are managed internally no one can take that away without your permission. There are ways to accomplish this but taking a drug is easier in the short-haul. And we like such Band-Aids. They keep us from having to look at the boo boo and dealing with it.
The person who relies on a crutch that they really don’t need will never learn to stand on their own let alone run.
Wahts the porlnmeb? I udnretdoos.
Finally, an intelligent reply in the spirit the post was intended!