Happy Birthday

to my favorite collective
alex_antonin
fayanora
molly_elizabeth
svaenohr

Marijuana legal in Oregon

As of Midnight, recreational pot use is legal. *Getting* it is the tricky part.

Untiil y=the OLCC works out rules (many months down the road) there's no place to *buy* it.

So the only legal way to get it is to have someone giove it to you or to grow it yourself.

To celebrate legalization and mke a gesture at solving the "how to get it" Problem NORML was giving away pot at midnight. Supposedly. pot & seeds.

Silly me, I figured that if I left home at 10:30, I'd be ok.

I got to the Burnside bridge at 11. The giveaway was at the west end. When I realized I was riding past a *line*, I had to backtrack until I was three-quarters of the way to the *east* end.

There was a long, long wait. Eventually around onethings started moving faster. Which turned out to be because they were out of pot.

A guy with a bullhorn was saying to go to a medical marijuana dispensary near the Hawthorne bridge and they'd have pot to give out. He said "right now".

Well, there wasn't anybody there. Finally, at 10 to 2, someone arrived and said they'd be giving free pot to folks with medical marijuana cards.

I gave up and left. In part because I'd mostly been interested in the seeds.

So I headed home. I swung by Voodoo donuts, as it being after midnight I had money in my account and could spend some on a luxury. :-)

When I got home I texted Fay and she got her pick of the donuts as a birthday present. She picked a bacon maple bar.

That left another for me, plus two apple fritters and a mango tango (I'd been worrtied she'd want that, I'd wanted to get two but they only had one)

I shall be crashing soon. The ride, combine with all the standing in line has tired me out.

stats
total distance: 12.6 miles
max speed: 17.2 mph
moving time 2hr 15 min
moving average: 5.5 mph

Silly bigots

Seeing a lot of posts on social media from people whose reaction to the Supreme Court decision on 6/26/2015 is that they are going to move to Canada...

Apparently they aren't aware that same sex marriage has been legal in Canada for 10 years.

Also, if they think they can just immigrate to Canada with no problem, they'd better think again. There are some fairly strict rules...

If they try moving to the UK/British Isles, only Northern Ireland doesn't have marriage equality.

New Zealand? Nope. Legal there too.

Australia. Ok, the fight is still going on there.

So Only *two* English speaking countries left...

I blame the schools and media.

With same-sex marriage now the law across all 50 states (and all US territories as well, a point often overlooked) we are seeing clerks and judges protesting the ruling and saying they'll never issue licenses to same sex couples.

But they don't want there to be consequences for this (that's one of the reasons for those *stupid* "religious freedom" laws that keep getting put forth)

We've seen this before. And, sad to say, just as often from liberals as conservatives.

Somehow, in teaching about all the folks who prevailed by using civil disobedience an essential part of the story has been lost.

Thoreau, Ghandhi, civil rights marchers and many others used civil disobedience. Sometimes they won, more often their losses helped point out that things had to change.

But somehow, huge chunks of the American public seem to have missed the fact that these people didn't just make a statement by breaking laws they disagreed with...

THEY TOOK THEIR LUMPS FOR BREAKING THEM. Jail time or worse.

There *were* consequences. Often extremely unpleasant ones. And they took action knowing full well the price they might pay.

But for *decades* we've had people wanting to "take a stand" but not wanting there to be any consequences. Sorry, it doesn't work that way.

Nor should it.