Today is 4:20...So?

Some of you have some inside information about me and so this will make more sense. Others just play along and nod at all the appropriate breaks. Today was a national holiday of sorts. For those brain dead that wreak of pottoulie this day is like a coming of age every year that makes those of us that imbibe on occasion look like a bunch of assholes. Firstly I want to thank you all for that. And now for the reasons I think 4:20 is dumb.

1) You can get stoned any day of the week. I understand that stoners much like drunks like to have the excuse the do that which they do every day just to make themselves feel better. The point is is it really different than any other day? You still wake up to 12 bowls of half eaten cereal on your floor and a love for all things Phish and Widespread Panic. You still gladly think the hippie stink you hose yourself with is sufficient enough to make people not upset that you don't shower (it doesn't work).

2) Did you know it is also Hitler's birthday? What a better way to say "Hey I want to rock the ganj and chill" than to celebrate a holiday for the green on the day one of the most hated historical figures was born. I know to me nothing says lets blaze one like the murder of between 11 and 17 million Jews. A weed holiday for me always seems more like something in the dead of winter. When you can't leave the house and have to get creative with the condiments and that last can of peas you have in the cupboard. Now that says ganja to me.

3) Let's bring attention to something that some of us would like to find some legitimacy to. Honestly folks. With legalization at a closer realization than ever before in history why should people be giving fuel to the pro-prohibition rhetoric? Much like the Tea Party folks don't like to be associated with inbred hicks, some of us like to distance ourselves from this image of the deshiveled idiot. It is distancing ourselves from this walking cliche that opens up valid conversation when it comes to this small but vocal group.

I've probably given away a bit about myself, but I can't abide by this image. I'm not a stoner...really I'm not...but I've been known to imbibe and I most certainly have my opinions when it comes to things of this matter. So maybe next year I'll start my own unholiday...some sort of anti-420 where the smokers of the world lay down their pipes and pick up a news paper or read a blog or do something other than just smoke and take up space. Maybe you could join a protest or write an editorial for your local paper. Just please avoid phrases like "you know" and "like". This seems more and more like a war lately, and one for the right reasons I'm willing to rage...

J...