he moved from smoke to coke, says it in the lyrics, not a good choice there bruh, but i feel yah, when you do that shit its easy to forget about the trees
No, my point is you no nothing about the topic. So, your "critical thinking" is useless.
"Wild" marijuana doesn't contain enough THC to get one high.
Your premise, "It's a plant that grows very easily," couldn't be more false.
Perhaps you should grow a normal garden, since it's obvious you have no experience with plants, before you start an argument on a complex plant, like pot. People spend years trying to learn this trade, and assholes like you with no background attempt to diminish it.
Yeah, I had a garden this year for the first time, and all my tomatoes died of blight. Can't imagine if it had been a crop I was relying on to pay the bills. Even gardening ain't easy.
Exactly, cultivation of any plant is difficult. However, marijuana can be very difficult. It consumes one life as much as any other over 40 hour a week job. And even people that have been growing for their whole lives experience problems. I think yviva doesn't respect farmers.
so, you're saying that if varieties of marijuana seeds were available for sale, (like flower & vegetable seeds are now) at garden supply outlets, that people would have great trouble growing those plants? i think not.
Just give up. Seeds are already widely available since anyone can order them from abroad. However, as stated earlier, marijuana is a complex plant, and anyone who knows how to grow understands that growing with seeds isn't feasible. The majority of marijuana growers reproduce plants through cloning. Again, marijuana cultivation is, obviously, too complex for you to grasp.
Growing any type of plant isn't easy. That's why hardly anyone grows their own food. Marijuana's much more difficult.
people have been using marijuana for millennia without the technology typically used to grow it today.
most people don't grow vegetables because they don't have garden space or they don't want to spend the time. people who do want to grow vegetables don't find it excessively difficult. i believe this would be exactly the same for marijuana if the plant were legal, and people were free to grow it if they pleased. there's no evidence to the contrary.
"People have been using marijuana for millennia." -Thanks for repeating a bumper sticker slogan. I'm sure you put a lot of thought into how little work these people must have put into producing it.
Good point. A few percent of individuals would grow their pot, as people do with vegetables. Everyone else would be buying from a store with prices staying about the same. Glad you left the free-weed world, which you imagined, behind.
right. people who felt like it would grow it. others would buy it from a store and it wouldn't be any more costly than any number of other plants, herbs, or vegetables. there's no reason, in an environment of complete legality that it would be an expensive plant.
It's like talking to a wall with you. You never once stated an actual reason why the price would drop. Just conjecture from a jackass who knows nothing about plant cultivation. And, by the way, marijuana isn't the only expensive plant. I suggest you quit theorizing about fake world that will never happen, and instead learn a little about the world you live in. Peace.
@TingoTroy if it was legal the price most likely would drop, just because people demand more money for doing something the more illegal it is, i guarantee heroin and cocaine prices would drop substantially if they were legal, they just happen to be highly illegal and people won't take big risks like that if they aren't going to profit much from it
Sorry, I don't believe your mention of heroin and coke is relevant. It's all conjecture on your part.
Marijuana costs the same in legal dispensaries in California as on the streets in nonmedical states. Good quality weed is expensive to produce. That's just how it is. And schwag can't get any cheaper than the Mexican mafias are selling it for, being produced with slave labor. The price is set. Making marijuana medically legal affected price little as would further legalization
Well maybe its the case for USA which explain why there some place where you have to pay you're oz 250$ mwhaha thats funny i get mine 110 the afghan kush
@swaggakid00010 Ok for the music, the weather depend of the time, and you dont know shit about pot the dude from the bongshop where i live he went 3 time to amsterdam potfest and won it twice.
I understand that The Coup was trying to keep people motivated and keep them out of jail by writing this song. However, revolutions take dollars and dollars are hard to get. They're easier to get through the marijuana trade, though, and that's specifically how marijuana can lead to revolution. This topic is explored at greater length in my novel: Anarcho Grow, which I used as a way to get similar political ideas to those of The Coup to a new audience, potheads.
not true now, if it ever was, with medical marijuana availability. and marijuana only costs money as long as it's illegal and a criminal trade, and one of these days it will be general legal and won't cost any more than it costs to grow a plant. it won't be a source of funds generation. besides, how much money does an authentic revolution cost. armed revolution is impossible, because the government is much better armed than any group of revolutionaries could ever be. (con't)
besides, armed revolutions lead to police states and military dictatorships, as people who take power with violence continue to try to control people with violence.
you know what leads to revolution, if anything, but not always? a sufficient level of desperation. because without that, people aren't willing to take the risks and make the sacrifices. (con't)
alternately, people could take control of the system via cooperative action: strikes, boycotts and non-violent civil disobedience. but, are people capable of organizing together to that extent? are people ever capable of cooperation, democracy & egalitarianism? i don't know if it's in the nature of our species, in which the biggest bullies tend to gain control via brutality and manipulation. sure would be a good thing, though.
1st, I never said anything about armed revolution.
2nd, everything takes money in a capitalist society, even overthrowing that society through a peaceful manner
3rd, The price of marijuana will not drop significantly with legalization. It costs the same in dispensaries as it always did on the street. And, full legalization is decades away.
4th, people are certainly capable of the level of cooperation you speak of. Look to Anarchist Catalonia of the last century.
it seems to be a source of livelihood for you, so, maybe it's a blind spot for you, but, it's worth keeping in mind that when people can grow their own, marijuana will be free.
It's been legal to grow in California and other states medically for a number of years, and it still has never come close to being free. Your argument is like saying food should be free because people are capable of growing it.
growing medically is a different situation than people simply being free to grow a plant. sure, plants are not free. you have to go to some greenhouse somewhere and buy one, or be skilled enough to cultivate one yourslef..you have to buy seeds of known quality. but, plants and seed simply do not cost much. and when people are free to grow whatever plant they want, in their home, in their garden, whatever, marijuana will have limited economic significance. (con't)
First off, it's fantasy to believe that marijuana will ever be 100% legal in the U.S. Secondly, anyone who believes that marijuana literally grows like a weed has no understanding of horticulture, and must be ignorant of the billion-dollar industry of grow companies/chem companies. Lastly, let's again compare this to a food. In theory, anyone can grow their own food. Still, food does not have 'limited economic significance,' and many in the U.S. go without it.
our ideas about the potential economic significance of marijuana are distorted by the high prices associated with the criminal trade, and also related to government control and limitation of the plant's availability. but, in truth, it's just a plant that grows like a weed. not an inherently expensive item...
Why are you, a person with no background in business or marijuana culture, making obscene predictions about the future? The reality is that the marijuana trade is presently a gold rush with people making piles of cash. tasedlak is right in that people can take advantage of that and use the dollars for good. You seem to be who Talib Kweli's talking about in Beautiful Struggle: "You join an organization that know black history/But ask them how to make money and it's a mystery."
i don't think there's anything "obscene" about saying that marijuana is a plant that grows easily, like a weed, and that if government obstructions were not involved, that anybody would be able to grow that plant, inexpensively, for whatever purpose, or that it would even be growing on the sides of the highways for anyone to pick. (con't)
as an analogy, people can go to the grocery store and buy expensive hot house tomatoes, but there's nothing obscene about people just buying some seeds and growing their own, and certainly they shouldn't be prohibited from doing so just so that some hot house farmer can control the market & make a lot of money selling people tomatoes that they can inexpensively grow themselves if they wish to.. people should be free to grow whatever plants they want. a fairly obvious point, i think.
a more general point would be that anyone making a lot of money in whatever way should be encouraged to use some of it for good. as i'm sure we both realize, some people are motivated to use whatever resources are at their disposal for good, others are simply selfish and self-centered. i'm sure this applies equally to people getting rich off the marijuana trade as it does to people getting rich off the stock market. (con't)
regardless, no one should have to spend a lot of money to get a plant that they could easily and inexpensively grow for themselves, so, my point is simply that when government regulations regarding marijuana are eliminated there may not be a lot of earnings to be made in that industry. & that is as it should be. people should be free to grow any plant that they wish to, for their own use, and shouldn't be forced to spend a lot of money to buy it from someone else.
The problem is that you started an argument on a subject that you have no background in. Marijuana's a complex plant that is of zero use if not given the utmost care. Food-grade crops can't be neglected on a roadside.
Then you defeat your argument further by bringing up tomatoes. The majority buy theirs opposed to growing them because growing them is difficult.
You write a lot but say little. Please gain experience in subjects before creating arguments about them.
it seems to me that people who are are invested in this topic because they're making a profit off of it may have a need to make it appear, or may even have internalized a belief, that it is more complex than it really is, and that their role in the process is more essential than it really is, because they want to maintain their ability to profit from it.
you're right that i don't know an incredible amount about the topic other than the fact that this is a plant that grows very easily, that people have been using for millenia. sure, people devoted to cultivating it can influence its quality and therefore may be able to produce a product that some people would wish to purchase. other people would just as soon grow their own, or pick their own from a known wild crop. it's a question of both economics and an individual's reason to use it
I listened, but I disagree. I don't believe cannabis is detrimental to users, as Boots portrays it. Furthermore, cannabis cultivation can provide money for revolution. As much as I agree with Boots on certain issues, he has never provided listeners with a practical way to gather money for revolution.
@tasedlak he does, boots has numerous songs about actually working. Doesnt say he likes it, half his songs talk about its evils, but he aknowledges as messed up as it can be, sometimes you just gotta work a shitty nine to five and many of his other songs are how to deal with it, and how to take what your makin and push towards a, yup, revolution.
Obviously not, as my comments above show. The thread started from me putting forth the claim that marijuana can help aid revolutions financially. I'm a fan of the Coup, but wasn't feeling Boots knocking herb. Not only can pot aid revolutions financially, it also can help people people break free from government propaganda. Smoking herb and realizing it wasn't harmful was one clear example where I learned my government was lying to me at an early age. I've written for High Times, bro.
Yep, though I'm workin' on another book now. Last thing I did with High Times was an interview with Noam Chomsky, World's #1 intellectual, on the drug war: hightimes(dot)com/lounge/ht_admin/7216.
Knowledge with plants is great talent to possess. If you do anything interesting with them, encourage aspiring-writer friends to write articles on it and submit to publications. There are a million smaller pot mags that need interesting articles. Even if they don't get scratch, it's a start.
Yes, it speaks to potheads. It tells them stop puffing because Boots claims it's bad for them as individuals and society as a whole. The lyrics are straightforward, nothing complex to digest.
In regards to calling me “massa,” that was neither polite nor well thought out. Taking a page from the above song, perhaps I should declare it was because you were high.
Love The Coup, not Boots's view on weed on this track. As I previously stated, weed can be a revolutionary tool.
So using drugs to drain the pockets of the weak minded is how we get revolution? You so "educated" that your selling books on it I see? It wasn't meant to be polite. Nor was I high. Now maybe, you're not aware of the lies that have deceived you. I may be a hypocrite, cause I DO smoke. That's my weakness. We all have a weakness. However I don't sell it. I encourage people to grow. In the ways they need to. Not the ways that keep them enslaved. So they can wake up.
I think you've swallowed the gov't's propaganda about weed too much. There's little negative about it, and viewing people's desire to indulge in it as a weakness is silly, like saying a desire for a certain food is a weakness.
Weed doesn't enslave people. People can "grow" while high or not, and the simple act of trying pot helps to break down the gov't propaganda system as people realize that everything their gov't has told them about it is a lie, creating propaganda awareness.
on one level we could be on the same page. I think we should be free to grow it. That's when you see what it is. It's just a plant. Like growing tomatoes. Yet when you said: "use it to fund revolution". Well... that IS enslaving people. Oh we have free will, but show me a dealer with morals when it comes to accepting peoples money, and I'll show you a gullable motherfucker. So if we sell it to those not smart enough to grow it... What are we?
It's not just selling it to those "not smart enough to grow it," also those who don't have the time and desire. We're simply helping our fellow human beings, like any other farmer, whether it be potatoes, meat, coffee, etc.
I can see your aversion to capitalism. However, selling pot to one isn't enslaving them. It's providing them with something they want, a good.
In regards to your comments about pot dealers being immoral, there are many good cats in the pot industry.
@Simpsonboy84 i think what theyre sayin that people in fucked up situations smoke instead of taking action like what he said in my favorite mutiny "put down the bottle and come get the gun" wich i actually think he has a point about even though im a weed head
@sunsformarion you can smoke aswell as being and activist, you could apply the same point to so many things, such as TV making people stupid, which it does but at the same time dosnt mean you dont read and further your knowledge. At the end of the day , in my opinion, there are many reasons for apathy.
They're usually pretty smart guys, but how can the Coup call themselves anti-government revolutionaries, and then turn around and spit ignorant shit like this like they're on the D.A.R.E. payroll?
shmokers man
yumfluff 3 weeks ago
he moved from smoke to coke, says it in the lyrics, not a good choice there bruh, but i feel yah, when you do that shit its easy to forget about the trees
rutzen21 3 weeks ago
I Smoke Weed, And I Approve Said Statement. :)
ThePluckE 1 month ago
Whole fuckn album knocks, a true classic, get it if you don't have it, I think I still got it on tape
tmanagement 3 months ago
I get baked to this song all the time maybe thats not what boots was going for but fuck it.
SativaOG 4 months ago
Sweet sample; Lay Away by the Isley Brothers.
MinigunFiend 7 months ago
just dont interrupt my looney tunes!
communistfun 8 months ago
I LUV THIS F'N SONG!
malikabradford 8 months ago
im going to inturrupt this heated debate to just say this song is CRACK.
leenieblaze 10 months ago
No, my point is you no nothing about the topic. So, your "critical thinking" is useless.
"Wild" marijuana doesn't contain enough THC to get one high.
Your premise, "It's a plant that grows very easily," couldn't be more false.
Perhaps you should grow a normal garden, since it's obvious you have no experience with plants, before you start an argument on a complex plant, like pot. People spend years trying to learn this trade, and assholes like you with no background attempt to diminish it.
TingoTroy 1 year ago
@TingoTroy
Yeah, I had a garden this year for the first time, and all my tomatoes died of blight. Can't imagine if it had been a crop I was relying on to pay the bills. Even gardening ain't easy.
blondebouclee 1 year ago
@blondebouclee
Exactly, cultivation of any plant is difficult. However, marijuana can be very difficult. It consumes one life as much as any other over 40 hour a week job. And even people that have been growing for their whole lives experience problems. I think yviva doesn't respect farmers.
TingoTroy 1 year ago
@TingoTroy
so, you're saying that if varieties of marijuana seeds were available for sale, (like flower & vegetable seeds are now) at garden supply outlets, that people would have great trouble growing those plants? i think not.
yviva 1 year ago
@yviva
Just give up. Seeds are already widely available since anyone can order them from abroad. However, as stated earlier, marijuana is a complex plant, and anyone who knows how to grow understands that growing with seeds isn't feasible. The majority of marijuana growers reproduce plants through cloning. Again, marijuana cultivation is, obviously, too complex for you to grasp.
Growing any type of plant isn't easy. That's why hardly anyone grows their own food. Marijuana's much more difficult.
TingoTroy 1 year ago
@TingoTroy
people have been using marijuana for millennia without the technology typically used to grow it today.
most people don't grow vegetables because they don't have garden space or they don't want to spend the time. people who do want to grow vegetables don't find it excessively difficult. i believe this would be exactly the same for marijuana if the plant were legal, and people were free to grow it if they pleased. there's no evidence to the contrary.
are you a marijuana producer?
yviva 1 year ago
@yviva
"People have been using marijuana for millennia." -Thanks for repeating a bumper sticker slogan. I'm sure you put a lot of thought into how little work these people must have put into producing it.
Good point. A few percent of individuals would grow their pot, as people do with vegetables. Everyone else would be buying from a store with prices staying about the same. Glad you left the free-weed world, which you imagined, behind.
TingoTroy 1 year ago
@TingoTroy
right. people who felt like it would grow it. others would buy it from a store and it wouldn't be any more costly than any number of other plants, herbs, or vegetables. there's no reason, in an environment of complete legality that it would be an expensive plant.
yviva 1 year ago
@yviva
It's like talking to a wall with you. You never once stated an actual reason why the price would drop. Just conjecture from a jackass who knows nothing about plant cultivation. And, by the way, marijuana isn't the only expensive plant. I suggest you quit theorizing about fake world that will never happen, and instead learn a little about the world you live in. Peace.
TingoTroy 1 year ago
@TingoTroy if it was legal the price most likely would drop, just because people demand more money for doing something the more illegal it is, i guarantee heroin and cocaine prices would drop substantially if they were legal, they just happen to be highly illegal and people won't take big risks like that if they aren't going to profit much from it
taytaydebrizzle 1 year ago
@taytaydebrizzle
Sorry, I don't believe your mention of heroin and coke is relevant. It's all conjecture on your part.
Marijuana costs the same in legal dispensaries in California as on the streets in nonmedical states. Good quality weed is expensive to produce. That's just how it is. And schwag can't get any cheaper than the Mexican mafias are selling it for, being produced with slave labor. The price is set. Making marijuana medically legal affected price little as would further legalization
TingoTroy 1 year ago
@TingoTroy You know shit son.
Well maybe its the case for USA which explain why there some place where you have to pay you're oz 250$ mwhaha thats funny i get mine 110 the afghan kush
QCBEC 4 months ago
@QCBEC mwhaha you have to live in Qaybec your music sucks, your weather sucks, and your weed is only 'ok'.
swaggakid00010 3 months ago
@swaggakid00010 Ok for the music, the weather depend of the time, and you dont know shit about pot the dude from the bongshop where i live he went 3 time to amsterdam potfest and won it twice.
In ur assss
QCBEC 3 months ago
I understand that The Coup was trying to keep people motivated and keep them out of jail by writing this song. However, revolutions take dollars and dollars are hard to get. They're easier to get through the marijuana trade, though, and that's specifically how marijuana can lead to revolution. This topic is explored at greater length in my novel: Anarcho Grow, which I used as a way to get similar political ideas to those of The Coup to a new audience, potheads.
tasedlak 1 year ago 12
@tasedlak
not true now, if it ever was, with medical marijuana availability. and marijuana only costs money as long as it's illegal and a criminal trade, and one of these days it will be general legal and won't cost any more than it costs to grow a plant. it won't be a source of funds generation. besides, how much money does an authentic revolution cost. armed revolution is impossible, because the government is much better armed than any group of revolutionaries could ever be. (con't)
yviva 1 year ago
@tasedlak
besides, armed revolutions lead to police states and military dictatorships, as people who take power with violence continue to try to control people with violence.
you know what leads to revolution, if anything, but not always? a sufficient level of desperation. because without that, people aren't willing to take the risks and make the sacrifices. (con't)
yviva 1 year ago
@tasedlak
alternately, people could take control of the system via cooperative action: strikes, boycotts and non-violent civil disobedience. but, are people capable of organizing together to that extent? are people ever capable of cooperation, democracy & egalitarianism? i don't know if it's in the nature of our species, in which the biggest bullies tend to gain control via brutality and manipulation. sure would be a good thing, though.
yviva 1 year ago
@yviva
1st, I never said anything about armed revolution.
2nd, everything takes money in a capitalist society, even overthrowing that society through a peaceful manner
3rd, The price of marijuana will not drop significantly with legalization. It costs the same in dispensaries as it always did on the street. And, full legalization is decades away.
4th, people are certainly capable of the level of cooperation you speak of. Look to Anarchist Catalonia of the last century.
U should read Anarcho Grow
tasedlak 1 year ago
@tasedlak
it seems to be a source of livelihood for you, so, maybe it's a blind spot for you, but, it's worth keeping in mind that when people can grow their own, marijuana will be free.
yviva 1 year ago
@yviva
It's been legal to grow in California and other states medically for a number of years, and it still has never come close to being free. Your argument is like saying food should be free because people are capable of growing it.
tasedlak 1 year ago
@tasedlak
growing medically is a different situation than people simply being free to grow a plant. sure, plants are not free. you have to go to some greenhouse somewhere and buy one, or be skilled enough to cultivate one yourslef..you have to buy seeds of known quality. but, plants and seed simply do not cost much. and when people are free to grow whatever plant they want, in their home, in their garden, whatever, marijuana will have limited economic significance. (con't)
yviva 1 year ago
@yviva
First off, it's fantasy to believe that marijuana will ever be 100% legal in the U.S. Secondly, anyone who believes that marijuana literally grows like a weed has no understanding of horticulture, and must be ignorant of the billion-dollar industry of grow companies/chem companies. Lastly, let's again compare this to a food. In theory, anyone can grow their own food. Still, food does not have 'limited economic significance,' and many in the U.S. go without it.
tasedlak 1 year ago
@tasedlak
our ideas about the potential economic significance of marijuana are distorted by the high prices associated with the criminal trade, and also related to government control and limitation of the plant's availability. but, in truth, it's just a plant that grows like a weed. not an inherently expensive item...
yviva 1 year ago
@yviva
Why are you, a person with no background in business or marijuana culture, making obscene predictions about the future? The reality is that the marijuana trade is presently a gold rush with people making piles of cash. tasedlak is right in that people can take advantage of that and use the dollars for good. You seem to be who Talib Kweli's talking about in Beautiful Struggle: "You join an organization that know black history/But ask them how to make money and it's a mystery."
TingoTroy 1 year ago
@TingoTroy
i don't think there's anything "obscene" about saying that marijuana is a plant that grows easily, like a weed, and that if government obstructions were not involved, that anybody would be able to grow that plant, inexpensively, for whatever purpose, or that it would even be growing on the sides of the highways for anyone to pick. (con't)
yviva 1 year ago
@TingoTroy
as an analogy, people can go to the grocery store and buy expensive hot house tomatoes, but there's nothing obscene about people just buying some seeds and growing their own, and certainly they shouldn't be prohibited from doing so just so that some hot house farmer can control the market & make a lot of money selling people tomatoes that they can inexpensively grow themselves if they wish to.. people should be free to grow whatever plants they want. a fairly obvious point, i think.
yviva 1 year ago
@TingoTroy
a more general point would be that anyone making a lot of money in whatever way should be encouraged to use some of it for good. as i'm sure we both realize, some people are motivated to use whatever resources are at their disposal for good, others are simply selfish and self-centered. i'm sure this applies equally to people getting rich off the marijuana trade as it does to people getting rich off the stock market. (con't)
yviva 1 year ago
@TingoTroy
regardless, no one should have to spend a lot of money to get a plant that they could easily and inexpensively grow for themselves, so, my point is simply that when government regulations regarding marijuana are eliminated there may not be a lot of earnings to be made in that industry. & that is as it should be. people should be free to grow any plant that they wish to, for their own use, and shouldn't be forced to spend a lot of money to buy it from someone else.
yviva 1 year ago
@yviva
The problem is that you started an argument on a subject that you have no background in. Marijuana's a complex plant that is of zero use if not given the utmost care. Food-grade crops can't be neglected on a roadside.
Then you defeat your argument further by bringing up tomatoes. The majority buy theirs opposed to growing them because growing them is difficult.
You write a lot but say little. Please gain experience in subjects before creating arguments about them.
TingoTroy 1 year ago
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yviva 1 year ago
@TingoTroy
it seems to me that people who are are invested in this topic because they're making a profit off of it may have a need to make it appear, or may even have internalized a belief, that it is more complex than it really is, and that their role in the process is more essential than it really is, because they want to maintain their ability to profit from it.
yviva 1 year ago
@TingoTroy
you're right that i don't know an incredible amount about the topic other than the fact that this is a plant that grows very easily, that people have been using for millenia. sure, people devoted to cultivating it can influence its quality and therefore may be able to produce a product that some people would wish to purchase. other people would just as soon grow their own, or pick their own from a known wild crop. it's a question of both economics and an individual's reason to use it
yviva 1 year ago
@TingoTroy
but, perhaps i have more of an ability to think critically about the topic as i neither profit from it, depend on it, or even enjoy using it...
yviva 1 year ago
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usaisaterroriststate 11 months ago
@tasedlak I understand that you're trying to push your little novel. However, understanding what Boots is saying takes LISTENING.
usaisaterroriststate 11 months ago
@usaisaterroriststate
I listened, but I disagree. I don't believe cannabis is detrimental to users, as Boots portrays it. Furthermore, cannabis cultivation can provide money for revolution. As much as I agree with Boots on certain issues, he has never provided listeners with a practical way to gather money for revolution.
tasedlak 11 months ago
@tasedlak he does, boots has numerous songs about actually working. Doesnt say he likes it, half his songs talk about its evils, but he aknowledges as messed up as it can be, sometimes you just gotta work a shitty nine to five and many of his other songs are how to deal with it, and how to take what your makin and push towards a, yup, revolution.
RHCP10206 7 months ago
@tasedlak I was a revolutionary when I was 12, I started smoking when I was 15 and today I'm both.
LiBlub1 4 months ago 4
@LiBlub1 Youre 15 AND 12???
avalableusername 1 month ago 3
@avalableusername hahahahaha
LiBlub1 1 month ago
@tasedlak Do you have a problem with people smoking marijuana
QCBEC 3 months ago in playlist RAP BITCH
@QCBEC
Obviously not, as my comments above show. The thread started from me putting forth the claim that marijuana can help aid revolutions financially. I'm a fan of the Coup, but wasn't feeling Boots knocking herb. Not only can pot aid revolutions financially, it also can help people people break free from government propaganda. Smoking herb and realizing it wasn't harmful was one clear example where I learned my government was lying to me at an early age. I've written for High Times, bro.
tasedlak 3 months ago
@tasedlak Like you get paid to writte about marijuana?
Like you know in life you have all these ability well most of my ability sucks exept my knowledge of marijuana.
QCBEC 3 months ago
@QCBEC
Yep, though I'm workin' on another book now. Last thing I did with High Times was an interview with Noam Chomsky, World's #1 intellectual, on the drug war: hightimes(dot)com/lounge/ht_admin/7216.
Knowledge with plants is great talent to possess. If you do anything interesting with them, encourage aspiring-writer friends to write articles on it and submit to publications. There are a million smaller pot mags that need interesting articles. Even if they don't get scratch, it's a start.
tasedlak 3 months ago
@tasedlak
You think this song doesn't speak to potheads??
ok massa
NathanCarson81 3 months ago
@NathanCarson81
Yes, it speaks to potheads. It tells them stop puffing because Boots claims it's bad for them as individuals and society as a whole. The lyrics are straightforward, nothing complex to digest.
In regards to calling me “massa,” that was neither polite nor well thought out. Taking a page from the above song, perhaps I should declare it was because you were high.
Love The Coup, not Boots's view on weed on this track. As I previously stated, weed can be a revolutionary tool.
tasedlak 3 months ago
@tasedlak
So using drugs to drain the pockets of the weak minded is how we get revolution? You so "educated" that your selling books on it I see? It wasn't meant to be polite. Nor was I high. Now maybe, you're not aware of the lies that have deceived you. I may be a hypocrite, cause I DO smoke. That's my weakness. We all have a weakness. However I don't sell it. I encourage people to grow. In the ways they need to. Not the ways that keep them enslaved. So they can wake up.
NathanCarson81 3 months ago
@NathanCarson81
I think you've swallowed the gov't's propaganda about weed too much. There's little negative about it, and viewing people's desire to indulge in it as a weakness is silly, like saying a desire for a certain food is a weakness.
Weed doesn't enslave people. People can "grow" while high or not, and the simple act of trying pot helps to break down the gov't propaganda system as people realize that everything their gov't has told them about it is a lie, creating propaganda awareness.
tasedlak 3 months ago
@tasedlak
on one level we could be on the same page. I think we should be free to grow it. That's when you see what it is. It's just a plant. Like growing tomatoes. Yet when you said: "use it to fund revolution". Well... that IS enslaving people. Oh we have free will, but show me a dealer with morals when it comes to accepting peoples money, and I'll show you a gullable motherfucker. So if we sell it to those not smart enough to grow it... What are we?
"..just like they put opium in Asia.."
NathanCarson81 3 months ago
@NathanCarson81
It's not just selling it to those "not smart enough to grow it," also those who don't have the time and desire. We're simply helping our fellow human beings, like any other farmer, whether it be potatoes, meat, coffee, etc.
I can see your aversion to capitalism. However, selling pot to one isn't enslaving them. It's providing them with something they want, a good.
In regards to your comments about pot dealers being immoral, there are many good cats in the pot industry.
tasedlak 3 months ago
@Simpsonboy84 i think what theyre sayin that people in fucked up situations smoke instead of taking action like what he said in my favorite mutiny "put down the bottle and come get the gun" wich i actually think he has a point about even though im a weed head
sunsformarion 1 year ago
@sunsformarion you can smoke aswell as being and activist, you could apply the same point to so many things, such as TV making people stupid, which it does but at the same time dosnt mean you dont read and further your knowledge. At the end of the day , in my opinion, there are many reasons for apathy.
magicmayor 1 year ago
They're usually pretty smart guys, but how can the Coup call themselves anti-government revolutionaries, and then turn around and spit ignorant shit like this like they're on the D.A.R.E. payroll?
Simpsonboy84 1 year ago
@Simpsonboy84 he turns it around at the end.. 'cause aint no revolution gonna come from the blunt.. put the blunt down'..
LDSWilliams 1 year ago
@Simpsonboy84 Because getting high isn't a revolutionary action. You're making yourself harmless.
umusuuk 1 year ago
he just needs to tour more spots. he's known in little rock
playnbluntly 1 year ago
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h4zmat 1 year ago
JUST FINISHED MINE yeah u knw wat im taking about......my comment of course lol
MICHAELIZTHEBEST 1 year ago
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51516 1 year ago
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giltreaper 1 year ago
Great song. Very true for some ppl too.. I do enjoy the smoke tho :)
oysta187 3 years ago