my life as a artist
I hate being judged, especially by judges
Wednesday 7th March 2007 8:31 PM
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A 68 year old woman from Northumberland received 250 hours community service today for growing cannabis for self-medication. She doesn't like smoking so she's been putting it in buns and casseroles. (Mmm, fun buns…. rock'n'roll casserole)… she says she's going to carry on doing it. I shall seek her vote when I stand at the next election for the 'Please Can I Grow Some Marijuana In My Garden' party.
Besides saying blahdy blahdy blah blah, the judge also warned that cannabis was a gateway drug. (You smoke it and then you have to go to the supermarket to buy carrot cake) . That worried me a bit… I've been smoking marijuana for thirty-five years now so l ought to be taking heroin quite soon. The fact is, it doesn't lead on to harder things (unless you count the floor), it leads on to softer things, like chocolate cake, poetry and cushions.
Marijuana and wine are two fine substances, best ingested separately. (Cor blimey!.. I well 'ad a whitey!) While wine tends to be ego-strengthening and marijuana ego-dissolving, both can be useful tools for social integration or solitary reflection. They can also be useful for getting ripped off ones face/skull/bollocks/rocker or tits. .
The social mores concerning wine and marijuana vary dramatically in different countries. In 1980 I visited a town called Rishikesh, in the foothills of the Himalayas on the banks of the River Ganges. Alcohol was considered illegal, while marijuana was considered sacred. For a practising catholic in Britain, marijuana is regarded as illegal while wine is considered sacred. Bloomin' morals!
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Im sure I've got more to say on all this but I've got to practice a song. It's about climate change in Yorkshire and its for a BBC north television programme called 'Inside Out'. It's a blues thing called ' I've got those heavy Harrogate carbon footprint blues'…. Hope I remember the words. It's quite common for marijuana smokers to leave sentences un
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