Tuesday, March 29, 2016

The convoluted special order process and why shipping your liquor to yourself should be legal

Im writing this article because the situation with liquor laws in this country deeply troubles me. If you live in most states and drink spirits you may have noticed that there is something called a special order list. This list is for items that can be requisitioned or purchased by the case, yet arent typically stocked in store. The list does not contain every spirit out in the world and if the spirit you are looking for just isnt on the list(say an obscure bottle you had while vacationing in another country or state, or a rare bottle you need for a spirit collection guess what, you need to beg your state liquor control commision to put it on their list(good luck doing this with pappy van winckles or super rare bottles, being that you need to buy a case and all). Its set up this way because under most state laws throughout the united states(with the exception of california, new York and possibly one or two more it is illegal to ship hard spirits to yourself.  In some even ordering a case of wine for home delivery is a criminal offence. How did we get here? How did we allow for the majority of states to become patsys for alcohol legalization only allowing the people of 2 to 4 states to have their liberty to consume and collect protected in full? Where most people have to be second rate citizens and live under rules that people that live in 2-4 states just dont have to follow? Where your average joe if he/she wants to have a true liquor collection or sip on some pappys has to either suffer, be a criminal to do so or move to a different state. how is that ok? Should we reform our alcohol laws in the rest of our nation? Has the information I have to bring to the table at all swayed your opinion on the topic?  Do you think you should have to grovel to your state commisioner just to be able to obtain your favorite spirit?Let me know in the comment section.

Saturday, March 19, 2016

my opinion on the RFRA, anti gay zealouts, the NAC and substance laws [a response to an article posted by jesse ventura]

link to original article:http://www.ora.tv/offthegrid/article/2016/3/17/jesse-ventura-justice-scalia-keeping-religion-out-of-the-supreme-court

this attitude is good when it brings accountability to hypocrites, but when it hurts people for example wanting genuine shelter from discrimination. like members of the native american church, it, in my opinion becomes a sick lets make them suffer like everyone else type attitude. i am ok with applying the rhetoric to establishment officials and people that are for genocidal policys that are counterintuitive or counter literate to what they say but i am not for them being use...d to further gentrify and discriminate against a people that see things differently than most, differently than those within a culture of abuse then i simply cannot support it. it is easy for substance abusers, christians and atheists with all of the indoctrination that they have, forcing them to comply with anti nature laws to feel an unfairness, it is easy for the christian hypocrytes to deny plants as something that god put here, it is easy for the uneducated or misinformed churchgoers to listen to establishment based church leaders go on the pulpit and mischategorize some plants as separate from the rest, obscure and therefore gifts from satan not god and therefore drugs. when you have an attitude though, like those, you dont drive progress, you say simply that its unfair that the natives have a freedom to be themselves and for others to join them on that journey. you say that they have to be unfree because you arent because its not fair. you connect issues that were never meant to be connected to make them connected and make the world a more unfair place, you use either your ignorance or as is with the case of atheists disbeleif to shut other people fighting to keep their rights down, rights that may someday be expanded even to include you. help you on your journey through life as well, even if it is unknowingly. you push people down when the possibility of fairness, and your right to grow what god put here for you is right in front of your face, with the growth of legalization, the chance of full repeal when it comes to unconstitutional applications of substance laws in a government and pharmaceutical industry bid to control nature.

anthropologys hate for western entheogenic religious practices, my take

laws can be abused, just as the government abuses their substance laws as if precursor laws to go after those possesing plants or plant matter, but one bad apple, as is the case with the confused bigoted bible readers, those like the marriage licence lady, doesnt ruin the bunch. ~Or Prohibiting The Free Excercize Therof~. Things go both ways, just like they do on 2nd amendment issues. anthropologists have been trying for decades to label the decitions of some of the youth bor...n in the western world to take on a religion from a culture outside of theirs as cultural appropriation. in my opinion, them having degrees coming from the same universitys that have set up our psychology and pharmacological system discredits them, makes them harder to trust. the fact that they discount that a person can be born with certain beleifs, no matter where they are in the world, says a lot. the fact that they aproach the issue in the manner that they do speaks volumes though, how it is as if they see plant based religions as a threat to their values. How someone is automatically not genuine in their beleifs because of where they were born. how they see something as cultural appropriation simply because it exists on the opposite side of the coin(Skin tone, part of the world, etc).