Legalize Marijuana!!!

My TV is killing my brain!

My husband and I decided to get rid of our television service. Most people can't even begin to understand why we would decide to do such a thing. I've gotten a few strange looks from people at work already. I should not be surprised though. It seems like people can't live without their TVs. This one girl I work with refused to have Thanksgiving at a certain family members house because they didn't have cable. What is that all about?! It sounds like a crack addiction or something. "Oh my god!! I can't go 5 hours without watching TV!!! AHHH!!!!!"

I have come to believe that TV is bad for the functionality and emotional well being of your brain. I first came to this conclusion through personal experience. Ever since I started working full time (you know... get up, go to work, come home, go to bed, get up...) I would come home and not want to do a damn thing because I was so exhausted from being there all day. What better thing to do than sit on my ass and zone out in front of the TV? And that is what I would do. I started to realize that it was making me more tired than I already was from work and I felt like I was actually getting stupider (is that a word?). It started making me feel lazy and bad about myself. As for the addicting part, I'm distracting myself with YouTube as I write this. But thats only because I am looking for a bad ass song for you to listen to at the end of my little anti-TV rant.

I feel like I have actually damaged my brain. But I also feel like there is hope. I plan on exercising it. Like a muscle, I'm going to use it more and hope it becomes strong again. Getting rid of the TV is going to be the first step. That's actually how I quit smoking ciggs. Can't smoke 'em if I don't have any. I'll just leave the part out where I just recently started smoking again. Oooops, I guess I fucked that up. Oh well. That's for another rant some other day. Anyways... we actually have a box that Dish sent us to return the satellite boxes in. So tonight is the night!!! After its gone, I wont have any choice but to occupy myself with more stimulating activities. Like reading, writing, painting, and spending time with my babies and my husband.

On that note, here is a cool link to a site that discusses the effects of TV on your brain...

http://www.eruptingmind.com/effects-of-tv-on-brain/

And... here is a song about hatin on the TV (among other things) by one of my favorite bands, the Violent Femmes:

Bill Hicks

People Suck

Have I mentioned that I love Bill Hicks??

Marijuana is good for me.

Yes... that's right. Marijuana is good for me. Its probably not so good for me when I smoke it, but there are other ways to consume Marijuana that don't require putting smoke in your body... like eating it or vaporizing it. But regardless of whether or not its good for me physically, I do believe it has a very positive effect on my mental and emotional well being. It is good for stress, depression, pain, digestion, menstrual cramps, PMS, relaxing, hangovers (something you don't get by taking marijuana), and it helped me quit smoking cigarettes. Cigarettes and alcohol are way worse for your physical health, and society for that matter, than weed is... BY FAR. I really do think that people need to be educated about Marijuana. Just because someone uses Marijuana doesn't mean they are a bad person. (the movie Reefer Madness comes to mind). I feel like I am a very "good" person. I am a kind, responsible, hard working person. I go to work everyday, I pay my rent and all of my bills on time, I am not violent AT ALL, I don't have any children and have never been pregnant, I am educated, I've never been to jail, I've never been arrested, I have a wonderful husband who I adore, 2 dogs, a cat, and a snake.... But yet under federal law, I can go to jail!! What the FUCK is that all about. I have never hurt anyone in my life, but the federal government thinks that I deserve to go to a horrible, violent place to be locked up like an animal. Let me tell you.... JAILING PEOPLE THAT USE MARIJUANA WILL NOT MAKE THEM STOP USING MARIJUANA. It will most likely cause them severe psychological trauma, quite possibly turning them into a "bad" person. Then after their sentence is up, they will be released back into society with their new found identity.

Anyway... enough rambling for now...