Once in awhile you get the message that everything is connected. You see the threads. We watched "Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle" on DVD recently. If you haven't seen it, I can certainly recommend it. It's funny. I mean sometimes it's not, it's stupid too. But the genuinely funny parts outweigh the genuinely stupid parts.
Overall it's an enjoyable ride. Harold and Kumar follow in the great marijuana clouded steps of Cheech and Chong, Bill and Ted, Wayne and Garth. Two likeable dudes (one Chinese- American, one Indian-American), toking and blundering their way about in the world.
This brings me to a headline I read in the Saturday NYT. "Legal Drugs Kill Far More Than Illegal, Florida Says." I think this is something we all suspected. Turns out the shit those drug companies are making a ton of money on, the ones the doctors are pushing (being on the payroll don't cha know?), the ones those pharmacists are doling out so kindly, can kill you dead.
According to the Florida study the legal stuff: Vicodin, Oxycontin, Valium, Xanax killed more people than the illegal stuff: cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine.
Alcohol was the most commonly occurring drug in dead people. Bud Light is the true "gateway drug."
And how about Harold and Kumar's favorite? What about DEMON WEED? Zero. No deaths. None. I mean, I'm sure there were plenty cases of the munchies, probably a lot of spaciness and uncontrollable giggling, but NO ONE DIED FROM SMOKING POT! And how crazy is it that we won't even let people smoke weed to help them deal with their cancer treatments?
And what about hemp shirts and skirts?
Insane Madness.