Randi on stage @ 1444 Market Street 1997

Randi on stage @ 1444 Market Street  1997
Randi on Stage 1997 at 1444 Market Street, SF, CA

Jack and yours truly today

Jack and yours truly today
Randi and Jack on the "Cadillac Campsite Tour"
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Welcome To Fifty Five Is The New!

Hello out there!
What's it to you, turning the age of Fifty-five? You don't have to be turning it tomorrow, you could have already turned that corner a while back. That part doesn't matter so much.
While it's important what one feels, what matters most of all that one feels, that one feels anything at all.
So, as an exercise in self-examination and a way of getting over an incredible writer's block, I submit this blog to the World Wide Web, and I submit myself to a bit of mirror gazing.
Inspired by the movie "Julie & Julia," I will blog for one year, which will include my turning fifty-five, and see what I find.
Who knows? Maybe fifty-five will be something fantastic...like the New Me.

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Saturday, January 9, 2010

Emperor

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Cleaning up around the house, I ran across some of my old graphics files.  This is one I made for the medical cannabis movement.

A lot of people don't realize that cannabis (a/k/a marijuana) was considered legal medicine for a very, very, very long time.  The American Medical Association was the last hold-out on denying it's medicinal value.
I recommend the book "The Emperor Wears No Clothes" by Jack Herrer, bless his soul.

THE book....a must read!
Jack spent the greater part of his life trying to educate the world and wrote what I believe is the definitive history of cannabis. By the time I met him, the book had been published already for several years and was in the midst of yet another revision to include new information...which at the time included all the Prop 215 information.

Any one interested in finding out more about him, just click this link:
http://www.jackherer.com

I've worked in the movement since the mid '90s.  Jack and so many others have been at it all their lives, so I'm a relative "newbie."  These other guys have been through the ringer.

They were on the front lines when a person could really get a life sentence for a joint, let alone a cannabis seed!  Can you imagine, not too many years ago....in this very country...people were incarcerated for such a thing.

Well...a lot of people are still in prison from those charges of that long ago and should be released.  Personally I believe that a majority of the marijuana offenders should be released....the old laws were a form of legalized brutality. We've come a long way since then..and still have a long way to go! 

I am amazed that we've politicized cannabis as much as we have in our society, and hope that enough people read Jack's book so they can help right the wrongs and restore the lives the bad laws helped destroy.

For today, Fifty Five Is The New Emperor....Jack Herrer....friend, warrior, activist.

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