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2010-03-25 Home Front: Culture Wars

Ballot to decide whether California legalises mariguana

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Posted by tipper 2010-03-25 04:23|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Whoever wrote that headline, can't spell.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-03-25 05:00|| 2010-03-25 05:00|| Front Page Top

#2 A mariguana is a pot smoking lizard.

Posted by Highlander 2010-03-25 05:31|| 2010-03-25 05:31|| Front Page Top

#3 "With legalization of recreational marijuana use, impaired driving, fatalities, injuries and crashes will go up, and we don't want to see that," California Mothers Against Drunk Driving spokesman Silas Miers said.

A couple years back there was a study done by the Brits that concluded pot smokers actually drove safer than straight drivers. That was before cellphones really kicked in and way before texting while driving became necessary.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2010-03-25 06:12|| 2010-03-25 06:12|| Front Page Top

#4 New law: DWG - Driving While Gorging [oneself on snack food...]

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-03-25 06:27|| 2010-03-25 06:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Given the condition and culture of California, we can observe another leftist fallacy, religion is not the opiate of the masses. They want the real stuff to avoid dealing with real life.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-03-25 08:15|| 2010-03-25 08:15|| Front Page Top

#6 A couple years back there was a study done by the Brits that concluded pot smokers actually drove safer than straight drivers.

Made by the same people who concluded about Global Warming?

Posted by JFM 2010-03-25 09:47|| 2010-03-25 09:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Redneck Jim, in Spanish the letter "g" is pronounced the way we pronounce the letter "w" especially when combined with a "u". So the spelling in the headline would appear to be correct to Spanish speakers and in Kaliphornia these days there are an awful lot of Spanish speakers. Even those of us who aren't Hispanic have become so accustomed to Spanish words and spellings that the "g" in mariguana looks normal. Well, pretty soon it might be "normal" to go around smoking reefers. I mean, there has to be some explanation for people like Barbara Boxer and Nancy Pelosi getting elected.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-03-25 12:07|| 2010-03-25 12:07|| Front Page Top

#8 #7, there you go. A law requiring a voter to test clean to vote might take care of the pelosi / boxer problem...

Posted by M. Murcek 2010-03-25 13:01|| 2010-03-25 13:01|| Front Page Top

#9 Ebang Uluque I fear your Spanish is a bit rusty.

To begin with it is not mariguana but mrrijuana and the J is pronunced like the h in harsh

For the Spanish g, it is a very special letter if it is followed by an e or a i it is pronounced like the h in harsh. If it is followed by an A an O or an U it is pronounced like the G in begin.
Now the combos GUI, or GUE the G is prounced like in begin and the U is not pronounced at all: it's only use is to point at pronouncing the G like in begin (there is the rare ü for the cases where the U must be prounced like in ciguëńa ie stork). In the combos GUA or GUO the U is pronounced since these letters don't need the U top make the G be pronounced G.

For the english J sound like in jail it doesn't exist in Spanish.

BTW I am a native speaker in Spanish (in addition to French).

Posted by JFM 2010-03-25 13:35|| 2010-03-25 13:35|| Front Page Top

#10 How's about legalizing Mariguano ?
I heard there are lots ofBats in Kalifornica :)

Posted by Elder of Zion 2010-03-25 13:38|| 2010-03-25 13:38|| Front Page Top

#11 Mariguana: Stacy Keach in "Up In Smoke"...

Posted by mojo 2010-03-25 13:52|| 2010-03-25 13:52|| Front Page Top

#12 La Mariguana es adictiva ?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-03-25 14:14|| 2010-03-25 14:14|| Front Page Top

#13 JFM, it's 'Mexican', not 'Spanish'.

Posted by Pappy 2010-03-25 19:12|| 2010-03-25 19:12|| Front Page Top

#14 By their actions I'd say most of the California Legislature is stoned 99% of the time.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2010-03-25 19:38|| 2010-03-25 19:38|| Front Page Top

#15 Only 99%, Deacon?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-03-25 19:54|| 2010-03-25 19:54|| Front Page Top

#16 Wasn't long ago that some university disovered pot use leads to schitzophrenia.

Then again who can trust English Universities these days.

I don't particularly like pot but i have a hard time justifying it being illegal. It is primarily a gateway drug because it is illegal and thus have to go through a dealer who has other wares to push.

Posted by rjschwarz 2010-03-25 22:49|| 2010-03-25 22:49|| Front Page Top

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