I have lived to see this. Not around me, but still. Go ahead and roll in your grave, Harry Jacob Anslinger, it won’t save you now.
h/t to The Vulgar Curmudgeon.
ETA: Oh, bother. One who should know says the story is a hoax.
Well, it oughta be true.
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They say that Louis XIV had the inscription Ultima Ratio Regum cast into all the cannon of the French Army. It means “The Ultimate Argument of Kings,” and that always struck me as one of the most honest and up-front things any ruler or would-be ruler ever said. “We can dress it up prettier than this, but when it comes down to the unvarnished truth this is what it’s about: You’ll do as I say or I’ll send my goons to kill you.”
I thought about that for a long time. If there’s an ultimate argument, it seems only logical that there must be an ultimate answer. For years I thought the ultimate answer must be the bullets in my rifle, but it never seemed quite right. I’ve got bullets – he’s got frigging Cannon Balls. I mean, if there were three hundred million rifles throwing bullets at him, then maybe. But we all know that’s not going to happen. So if there’s an ultimate answer to his ultimate argument, it sure as hell ain’t bullets.
It finally came to me – and that’s when I abandoned the city and most of my stuff, and gave all that was behind me a good stiff Randian Shrug.
The ultimate answer to kings is not a bullet, but a belly laugh.
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Sorry to burst any happy bubbles, but that story is a hoax.
“Bulk marijuana” remains illegal in Washington and Costco is not a licensed retailer for pot, anyhow.
Maybe in the future. But the Kitsap Report is yet another faux news site.
http://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/costcopot.asp
When you run across something like that, it’s always a good idea to check the “About Us” page.
Hey, I was in a hurry to get something posted and then go outside and tarpaper before it got hot. You want layers of editorial fact-checking and oversight, go read Rolling Stone. 🙂
I was driving through Battle Ground, WA a couple of days ago and saw a big green billboard for the “Cannabis Country Store”:
http://www.cannabiscountrystore.com/home.html
Biggest, tallest sign in town I think. I was quite amused. It’s a pretty conservative area.
Their site talks about pot for $10 a gram. When I was young I sold it for $10 an ounce. That’s inflation for you…
When I was young I bought it for $10 an ounce. When I was young I’d never heard of ‘bud,’ and the contents of the bag were always dubious until proven efficacious.