This is a real license plate.

This is also something you could only get away with here on Maui. My friend bought this car with the license plates.  He asked about the plates when he bought the car.

The story from the little old lady goes:  She ordered these plates from the DMV and got a call that they were in.  She went to pick them up at the local office.  They couldn’t find them.  They sent her off to the main dmv.   Maui is a small island.  When she got there, dmv couldn’t find her plates either.  Finally after some time a manager came from the back with the plates.  DMV would not release the plates.  The lady asked why?  The manager said they could be offensive.  The lady had no idea what to think.   She busted out some paperwork of a recently deceased relative that had the same initials.   WTF? for real.  She walked out with the plates and now my buddy and his wife own the car.  Don’t know if I could drive around with that as a plate.

Too bad there is another side to this story.  A side where the man behind the dispensary might get 100 years in prison.  What?  In California the average first-degree murderer serves 20 years behind bars???  Thank the Feds for taking this to a whole new level of stupidity.

As an early-on/grassroots supporter of good old prop. 215, I don’t understand how the Feds can just barge in and stomp all over California.  I think we need to show that medical marijuana has become a states rights vs. the Feds issue.  This is far bigger and could really grab peoples attention.

Anyway, enough of the ranting.  What I wanted to do was present you the whole story of what I described earlier.

Drew Cary hosts and narrates a very well done piece on medical marijuana and minors.

Thanks to Reason.tv for making and sharing videos like this

I hope you watched and enjoyed the vid. My question now is, you got cancer and your fighting for your life. You just got some weed. How do you enjoy it? Joint, pipe, bong? I wonder what this kids first session was like? How did the marijuana actually work for him?

Keep your bongs clean!

I felt the ‘meat’ of the movie was the conflict between state medical marijuana laws and federal anti-drug laws. There are some very candid shots of medicinal dispensaries getting raided and the protests that ensued. A perspective you really don’t get to see in the mainstream media. Unfortunately, Super High Me did lack the real medical examination of the 30 days of consuming MJ and the reality check of a real documentary.

Some things this movie is:
-Doug Benson’s humorous 30-day stoned journey.
-a political film about the dispute between state and federal authorities on Marijuana legalization in California.
-a club film about Benson’s comedy act during the period of his 30-day experiment.
-evidence that marijuana won’t do much harm.

Some Fun Facts

Super High Me
- A “documentary” about the effects of smoking marijuana non-stop for 30 days
- Doug didn’t drink alcohol for the entire two months
- He lost 8 pounds during supah-high month
- Interviews with activists, politicians, patients, dispensary owners

Doug Benson
- First toked at age 27
- Former contestant on Comedy Central’s “Last Comic Standing”
- 2006 High Times Stoner of the Year
- Was a writer and performer on the Marijuana-Logues

Notable Cameo’s
- Bob Odinkirk
- Sarah Silverman
- Patton Oswalt
- Brian Posehn
- Mark Emery

I would like to tell you that we took comprehensive notes all along the way and have a full report. Well, we are stoners and all we have are some pictures and some captions.

The Setup:

Half a dozen friends

8 different types of Marijuana

WOW

Please enjoy the slide show below:

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P.S. The AK-47 was the crowd favorite with the Grand Daddy a close second.

Forgetting To Tuck In Your Nuts.. Priceless

I can hardly imagine seeing either one of these guys live in Amsterdam, but to have both on stage…what a treat.

Although not the tightest musical performance. The two were obviously having fun and were playing to the crowd.

Please enjoy this “high” quality footage from the show. The first 30 seconds is a blank screen with just audio, but then the magic happens.

This footage is courtesy of:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Neckywoudje

Now something that should only happen once a year is the “420 Fried Food Feast”.
A gathering of friends, fried food, and the celebration of marijuana.

What a glorious day it was and a big shout out to Mike for lending the key ingredient: the deep fryer. :)

The 420

• Sour Diesel x Spontanica

• Trainwreck

The Fried Food Feast

• Kalua Pork, Cream Cheese and Thai Sweet Chili Sauce Won Tons
• Chicken Eggrolls
• Beef Taquitos
• Chicken Taquitos
• Pork Gyoza
• Tempura Shrimp
• Tempura Broccoli

The 420 was wonderful. The fried food was delightfully gluttonous. The friends were happy.
This was our first “420 Fried Food Feast”, but it will NOT be the last. In fact we have already started planning the second annual “420 Fried Food Feast”.
Please enjoy some of the shots from the event:
Move around or double click on the polaroids for your viewing pleasure.

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Please clean your bongs and pipes for this occasion. You can check here for tips on how to clean your pieces.

Please smoke large amounts, share with your friends and pack a few bowls for those that can’t be here to enjoy.

Please be safe. Don’t toke and drive.

Eat some good food and get ready for next year.
[[Show as slideshow]] ]]> http://usedbongs.com/2008/04/happy-420/feed/ 0 http://usedbongs.com/2008/04/best-420-stoner-video-ever/ http://usedbongs.com/2008/04/best-420-stoner-video-ever/#comments Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:27:16 +0000 UsedBongs http://usedbongs.com/?p=32 I know that this video has been out for a while, but I think everyone should rewatch it. I laugh EVERY time I watch this.

For those that have never seen this. Take a couple of rips and hold on.

Setup: A College Campus on 4/20

A Parachute with 30+ kids hotboxing underneath

A Lone Cop

and A College tour group watching

Enjoy the Benny Hill-esque madness that ensues.

This is a good thing.

We the people need to call our Congress men and women and our representatives to demand that they support this bill.

202-224-3121 is the number for the switchboard at the capitol. Ask for your senator or congressman’s office. Type in your zip code at http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/ for more local information. You can email your senator or Representative as well as the President & the Vice President from this site. Let’s do this.

Look who is Co-sponsoring the bill: Reps. Ron Paul (R-TX), Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), Dana Rohrabacher(R-CA) and Sam Farr (D-CA).

Please read the press release from Rep. Frank’s website below:

April 17, 2008

FRANK INTRODUCES LEGISLATION TO REMOVE FEDERAL PENALTIES ON PERSONAL MARIJUANA USE

Congressman Also Files Bill Permitting Medical Use of Marijuana in States that Choose to Allow it with Doctor’s Recommendation

Congressman Barney Frank today introduced bi-partisan legislation aimed at removing federal restrictions on the individual use of marijuana (HR 5843). One bill would remove federal penalties for the personal use of marijuana, and the other (HR 5842) – versions of which Frank has filed in several preceding sessions of Congress – would allow the medical use of marijuana in states that have chosen to make its use for medical purposes legal with a doctor’s recommendation. Representative Ron Paul (R-TX) joined Frank as a cosponsor of the federal penalties bill. The cosponsors of the medical marijuana bill are Rep. Paul, along with Reps. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), and Sam Farr (D-CA).

Congressman Frank released the following statement explaining the legislation.

“I think it is poor law enforcement to keep on the books legislation that establishes as a crime something which in fact society does not seriously wish to prosecute. In my view, having federal law enforcement agents engaged in the prosecution of people who are personally using marijuana is a waste of scarce resources better used for serious crimes. In fact, this type of prosecution often meets with public disapproval. The most frequent recent examples have been federal prosecutions of individuals using marijuana for medical purposes in states that have voted – usually by public referenda – to allow such use. Because current federal law has been interpreted as superseding state law in this area, most states that have made medical use of marijuana legal have been unable to actually implement their laws.

“When doctors recommend the use of marijuana for their patients and states are willing to permit it, I think it’s wrong for the federal government to subject either the doctors or the patients to criminal prosecution. More broadly speaking, the norm in America is for the states to decide whether particular behaviors should be made criminal. To make the smoking of marijuana, whether for medical purposes or not, one of those extremely rare instances of federal crime – literally, to make a ‘federal case’ out of it – is wholly disproportionate to the activity involved. We do not have federal criminal prohibitions against drinking alcoholic beverages, and there are generally no criminal penalties for the use of tobacco at the state and federal levels for adults. There is no rational argument for treating marijuana so differently from these other substances.”

“To those who say that the government should not be encouraging the smoking of marijuana, my response is that I completely agree. But it is a great mistake to divide all human activity into two categories: those that are criminally prohibited, and those that are encouraged. In a free society, there must be a very considerable zone of activity between those two poles in which people are allowed to make their own choices as long as they are not impinging on the rights, freedom, or property of others. I believe it is important with regard to tobacco, marijuana and alcohol, among other things, that we strictly regulate the age at which people may use these substances. And, enforcement of age restrictions should be firm. But, criminalizing choices that adults make because we think they are unwise ones, when the choices involved have no negative effect on the rights of others, is not appropriate in a free society.”

“If the laws I am proposing pass, states will still be free to treat marijuana as they wish. But I do not believe that the federal government should treat adults who choose to smoke marijuana as criminals. Federal law enforcement is a serious business, and we should be concentrating our efforts in this regard on measures that truly protect the public.”

CLICK HERE FOR A SUMMARY OF HR 5843

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