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Monthly Archives: May 2018

John Boehner’s Growing Weed?!

Posted on May 27, 2018 by GanjaTales Posted in Uncategorized Leave a comment

John Boehner’s Growing Weed?!

 

As Speaker of the House and Head Louse in a crummy Congress

that criminalized cannabis he helped create the American Prison State.

 

I remember the not-fun of getting busted with dozens of guns

in my face and fifty cops tearing my house apart. I kid you not. Why,

it took four of them just to go through my wife’s underwear drawer

and three more to throw all my military medals on the floor. Really?

 

Four plants under a basement light and I’m looking at three-to-five

in the state penitentiary. Seriously? Just because I live in Nebraska

and in many states people can buy six plants and grow them for free?

 

I never mugged anyone, robbed a bank, burgled a home or stuck a gun

in someone’s face.  All I did was grow some weed. That’s what kept me off

the streets. I did society a favor. No bar-hopping or drunk-driving for me.

 

But obviously I failed to appreciate the severity of the charge: “Manufacture

with intent to distribute.” What the heck! Four plants and they make it sound

like I’m cooking meth for half the town and need a task force to take me down.

 

Man, American lawmakers are so full of bullshit and hypocrisy. They never stop

getting rich off chumps like you and me. Then they have the temerity to say

we live in the land of the free. But truly, I almost lost my mind the other day

when I turned on the TV and heard about John Boehner growing weed.

 

Which is what he and his jerk-friends in Washington threw me in jail for!

 

Craig Pugh is the author of “Ganja Tales,” a volume of nine marijuana short stories published
in 2000, and three cannabis screenplays. A former Air Force journalist for twelve years, he was
twice named the top feature writer in the U. S. Government. He was also a city hall reporter
for the Longview, Texas, News-Journal, as well as a university writing instructor. A working poet
with more than a hundred poems, he has an English M.A. and lives in Omaha, Nebraska, where
all marijuana is illegal.
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