Sorry, that was a tangent. The crazy Weed-smoking Mexican Senator story. I was originally talking about how the War on Drugs (as well as the stepped-up policing of the US-Mexico border is forcing some people to take more THC into their lungs than they would like. Here's another quote from that same Texas Senator.

I'm a marijuana lightweight. When I smoke kind bud I get overstoned. Then I can't do anything right: I can't talk, I can't read, I can't sleep, I can't drive, I can't screw—I can't even write when I get that fumigated. It took me more than an hour to write what you've just read because I'm overstoned on chronic at the moment, which really sucks because I'm behind schedule."

—All I want is some cheap Mexican weed, by Edwin Decker

Oh, hell, sorry. That wasn't the Senator. That was a fella named Edwin Decker. He wrote some stuff on the Internets and I found it. He's talking about "Kind Bud" which my marijuana-inhaling associates (I have them on hold) tell me is some type of stinky, green, "deliciously-potent" version of regular Marijuana. Edwin is talking about how he doesn't really like Kind Bud, but prefers the Mexican strain (for Crazies, I'm guessing) that usually makes its way into San Diego over a border that is now being heavily policed. So, unfortunately, Edwin must resort to the local, American-grown "Kind," which he claims is easy to find.

It's really rather a funny essay...ése. I heartily recommend it. There are even some good points here and there—if you can find your way past the jungly, green, meandering marijuana-drenched mumbly-jumbo. (I'm kidding, Edwin! It's more of a khaki-ish tint than a true "green.")

Some people argue that consuming narcotics does harm somebody else. They say people are dying over the stuff: border agents and police and politicians on both sides of the border are losing their lives fighting the war on drugs and are therefore victims of my drug consumption. They say it's the high demand that creates America's drug problem, and I couldn't disagree more. There's a high demand for milk, but we don't have milk wars at the border. Nobody's smuggling cows in the wheel wells of U-Hauls, no shootouts at the border with heavily armed milkmen. No, the problem isn't demand; the problem is the prohibition of something that is in demand, and it is that prohibition, actually, that is illegal and immoral because it impedes my constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of, you know, fun cool shit.

—All I want is some cheap Mexican weed, by Edwin Decker

Now, if a stoner can recall, verbatim, one of the most important phrases of the Declaration of Independence, why can't our lawmakers?