Volume II • Issue 11 • April 2005

The Constitution Was Written in a Different, Simpler America
by famed historian D.J. Kirkbride

When Jesus, Abraham Lincoln, and lil’ Georgie W. Bush typed up the Constitution of the United States of America on their low-tech word processor back in those olden time days of yore, 1492 -- not soon after Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue to discover the world wasn’t flat but kinda bumpy in certain spots -- there were no laws to speak of (hence the Constitution of America), let alone anti-marijuana laws. This simple, proven FACT explains the oft-quoted, frequently debated line in the aforementioned Holy American Constitution of America, paragraph thirteen:
 
“Smoke ‘em if ya’ got ‘em.”
 
To further explain this important entry in the laws that have ruled our American Kingdom for lo these 500-and-some odd years (no one has an exact timeframe), in those simpler, ye olden times, even public officials and famed generals toked up after a good meal or Civil War battle or slave sale or what have you. Weed wasn’t just for lay-about hippie types like it is today, but enjoyed by all. It was the thing to do, which is why this famous line was included in our oft imitated, never equaled Constitution. Ironic that now it’s such a cause for debate. Back then it, to quote our fifth president Benjamin Franklin, “… wun’t no thing but a chicken wing.”


Use our handy historical notes on your next essay test, kids!

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Dustin Grovemiller
Currents
Laura Goodman
From the Cheap Seats
Cousy Kane
No Action
Anthony Eldridge
Pure Lard
D.J. Kirkbride
Confessions of a
Dingy Trooch

Bethany Shady
Gently Wtih a Chainsaw
Leigh Sholler
The Little Things
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