>>>>>>I see that bastion of integrity, Barney Frank, and that bastion of lunacy, Ron Paul, are pushing legalizing pot. To quote Rush Limbaugh, "I hope they fail."
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>>>>>The legalization/decriminalization of pot would save billions of tax dollars annually.
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>>>>>Anti-marijuana people will tell you how drugs are bad while sipping a whiskey and smoking a cigarette.
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>>>>>Does not compute!
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>>>>You might want to put the broadbrush down. I don't drink whiskey, nor do I smoke. I have arrested a ton of dopeheads though. Y'all might as well save your attempts at persuading me to be for legal pot. It ain't gonna happen.
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>>>Oh I gave up attempting to persuade you - I'm just pointing out how ludicrous it is to keep that viewpoint despite all the evidence.
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>>Have you been eating bananas again ?
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>Well that's how it all started, but I guess the bananas where just a gateway to other stuff - now I'm eating pineapple and mangoes every day plus now I'm up to two bananas just to even feel like I had a banana.

Sometimes I think I am keeping the banana industry alive. Many mornings in summer, and somewhat less so through the rest of the year, my breakfast is a smoothie-like concoction. Disconcertingly, I got it from Bob Woodward's book about John Belushi; it was something his wife made for him to try to keep him healthy. It consists of a couple of inches of orange juice, a container of yogurt, some wheat germ, three bananas or so, and some strawberries. Tastes great and lots of good stuff in there.

According to a recent New Yorker article bananas may be an endangered fruit. Most banana-growing parts of the world have been afflicted by an infection geneticists have yet to figure out. The bananas go bad or at least unsalably offputting. It was a tricky business to begin with, shipping perishable fruit thousands of miles to look perky in your local produce aisle. (One of my clients had a special banana room within the produce warehouse to control the temperature and humidity according to store demand). The article said that in the not so distant future there might not be any more bananas.

We're all bananas, basically ;-)