DAVID HESS MOVIES

about that link: please disregard the dates-of-death in regards to the AIDS list. Fuckit if I'm implicating myself, but helped a HELL of a lotta AIDS patients myself in the late 90's selling pot. Granted, I sold to a couple hippies on the side, and ocassionally took a cut for my own smoking enjoyment. So won't claim philanthropy across-the-board. But it felt better selling pot to AIDS patients so they could get the urge to eat again after chemo or whatever drug-'treatments' they receive than selling to teenagers wanting a new buzz.

Most of the guys I sold to have had HIV for over a decade, without AIDS rearing-up. But laughter might help too (Know a 13yr HIV+ hemophiliac, blood transfusion, not sex-related, probably early-40s now) who cried thanking me for making him laugh. It was because I duped a copy of "Beastiality of the Bonzo's" for him. Fuckin audio-cassettes made him laugh so much, and pot gave him the munchies, claims THAT's why he's alive today.

You raise one of the many sore points I have regarding this country- the asinine, antiquated marijuana laws. I don't smoke it, and I don't think it's totally benign, but it does have proven medicinal benefits, and that's a lot more than anyone can say for tobacco, which is legal. Alcohol also has certain medicinal properties, but it's also destroyed the lives of a lot of people I know (one girl I knew in high school- late 30's- is currently near death with a corroded liver) and it, also, is perfectly legal. Of course, you can go into a lot of the deeper political and sociological implications of all this- of how it criminalizes a whole class of people, how it supports the prison industry, etc. What it comes down to for me is we're either a free people in a free country or we aren't. If someone wants to fuck themselves up with alcohol, they have that privilege. Why have these entrenched obstructions in place when it comes to marijuana? How does any of this make any sense? I think it comes down to this same tired Puritan ethic that seems to have infected the people of this country for most of its history, but that's just my opinion. Of course, all the blame can't be put at Bush's door. After all, the Rockefeller drug laws were enacted a long time ago. But don't expect to see any progress made in this regard if this guy stays on in office.
Ed T.
PS- As a footnote to the porno discussion, funding for prosecutions of pornography virtually dried up under Clinton. Under Bush, we're again spending millions to prosecute consenting adults who make and/or look at porno. Again, how does any of this make any sense at all? Conservatives especially, with their vaunted sense of fiscal responsibility, should be bothered by all this, I think.

The pot laws in America are no differant than Prohibition Laws of the 20's They didn't work then and they don't work now. In a free nation where individual choice is considered a right and not a privelage this cracks me up. The main reason the government doesn't decrim or outright legalise is it would put most of the law enforcement and prison workers out of a job.

Joe **lifelong member of NORML

<font color="#007FFF" size="1">[ June 06, 2004 12:56 PM: Message edited by: JoeS ]</font>

You and I are pretty much on the same page. If history has taught us anything, it's that you can't legislate morality. We never seem to learn, though.

WOW!

From David's filmography, to porn on the IMDb, to pro-cannibis rants usually read in "High Times" magazine, this thread is short for having such twisted meandering discussions! [img]tongue.gif[/img]

marijuana should be legal.
speedo's should be illegal.

You saw that on someones car bumper-sticker, didn't you? [img]wink.gif[/img]

Well, it's always the "twisted meandering" discussions that keep things lively, in this board member's humble opinion. Also it's always interesting when/if David jumps in with pithy commentary of his own. As for the diversity of topics, they all deal with freedom, true freedom, and that's got to be important, particularly in this repressive day and age.

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Originally posted by reved:
You saw that on someones car bumper-sticker, didn't you? [img]wink.gif[/img]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">No, it's just a painful reality of summer in California, Reved.

Total different 'reality', outside of our usual space/time continuum...

Even over here, our gas prices spiked at $2.50/gallon. Hehe, and gas costs only 5-cents per gallon in Iraq. [img]graemlins/wonder.gif[/img]