Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 24, 2022

Good thing BD only has to worry about speeders and busted taillights.

Dang, I just realized that if my understanding of the date is correct, this strip was right around the day I was born.

When it flowers, then you’ll smell it for sure.

There’s something funny going on / I can just feel it in the air.

Call out the instigators.

Just wait till BD leaves a leg behind in Iraq! He’ll be BEGGING for medical marijuana!!

har..i’d forgotten about zonker’s sentient dope plants

just wait until they start crossbreeding it for higher THC like they do now

Too many years ago, I brought a plant home for the summer which I had started in college (haven’t indulged for many years also). Mom thought it was very pretty and kept it watered for me. Alas, it never did grow too large nor flower.

Puh-leez…marijuana legalization was never about ANYthing other than govt’s getting a piece of the pie. MONEY has always mattered more than the will of the people, right and wrong, or any other issue.OR HASN’T THE CURRENT STATE OF POLITICS DEMONSTRATED THAT ADEQUATELY????

Oh, how far we have come…

Here in Illinois, the whole matter has been rendered moot.

If the Major Tobacco companies could have controlled all the growth and distribution of Pot, it would have been made legal DECADES ago.

If you can smell it, be happy B.D.! You won’t know what that pleasure is until Covid-19 hits.

At a recent festival in Golden Gate Park you COULD smell it in the air.

I’ve always loved how the plants talk to Zonker. (“Feed me, Seymour”)

“Let’s bust some potheads and then get drunk with the boys!”

Ever wonder why marijuana was a federal Schedule 1 drug in the first place? It was thanks to the promotional efforts of Harry Anslinger, US Commissioner of Narcotics, 1930-1962, and this was his “reasoning”:

“Marihuana leads to pacifism and Communist brainwashing.”

“Reefer makes darkies think they’re as good as white men.”

“You smoke a joint and you’re likely to kill your brother.”

“Marijuana is the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind.”

“The primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races.”

“Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death.”

“There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos, and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers, and any others.”

Ah,the good old days when Zonker could talk to plants.Whatever became of “Patty The Potted Palm”?

And get your tail over here,Mosely!!

I always disagreed with this approach to medical marijuana. While I do favor full (though regulated) legalization, the special treatment dope got when it came to medicine like this was wrong. If legal as a prescription, it should have been treated as such: note from the doctor, go to the pharmacy, get the size you were prescribed that was packaged and measured at an inspected facility with the FDA noting and asserting the percentages of the compounds every so often to verify there haven’t been any major changes in the product that could affect addictiveness or efficacy, for a regulated cost negotiated between the provider and your insurance.

You know, like every other medicine we have that isn’t homeopathic pseudo-scientific garbage.

The implementation of “ok, maybe you need this, so here’s a handful of seeds, we won’t tell you where we got them, plus a coupon for a heat lamp from Home Depot. Have at it. (wink, wink)” – just absolutely wrong.

Okay BD. What if it’s a hot babe that has the starter plant? Aren’t babes protected by state law? What do you do?

That’s a pretty chatty pot of potted pot.