assumptions....

o poor and unread blog how i have missed you .... well kind of ....but not really......a few of you have commented that you like this silly blog of mine so for you i keep it up... you know who you are and i appreciate the kind words even if you only read this for some sadistic amusement.... and of course i  continue to keep a blog so i can flex my strong but apologetic dr jekyle and mister hyde of an ego that i have..... soap box soap box i love to get on my soap box even if it is in a closet...and say all the stupid things that unfortunatley my poor wife has to here me rant about ... and yes i didnt bother to spell check this... this is how i would write it with my pen.... i make no appologies ....so anyway....

many things have collided in my  brain lately and its hard to grab them all and stuff them in a catergorized  boxes  and then dump them out of my mouth one by one.... i have learned that i really just grab all my thoughts and dump them out in one big box... so here it goes...

i often times assume people know things.... this is a bad quality of mine.......i really need to work on it.... a few things i assume but shouldnt ......

permanancey .... permanentcy .... permanentcie ...... permanancy...... i obviously  cant spell it..... but i am so tired of hearing about it.....look... lets be honest .... tattoos really arent that permanent.... they are only as permanent as you... which isnt very..... in the scheme of things tattoos might be the least permanent things.... sure a walmart bicycle is less permanent than a tattoo.....but your house will long live you ... and your tattoo... ... your house  will be here when you are not...that writing you wrote in the side walk when you were a kid will out live your tattoo.... if you make just about anything outside of a cheeseburger it will more than likely be around this great planet longer than you will...it is a strange thing for people to realize that an acrylic painting they could make will last longer than that doodle on there arm.... it is an odd thing to realize not only among material items but in the category of art tattoos are such a temporary item.... so if you havent picked it up by know.... look.... how many tattoos do we have from ancient times... or even renisance times.... one two ... maybe 5 ... i dont know... but that michelangelo is still hanging proudly... are you catching my drift?

so look ... this is where im headed.... tattoos wont last longer than us....they are a destinction mark of a desicion in time... in the wearers life.... both fleeting and in consiquential.. really,... to the race of human kind.... though powerful (or at least should be) to the owner of the tattoo marking on there outwards self a desision.... which leads me to this......

people that are scared of permanantcy or what they call permanentcei  are really scared of a desicion.... a desicion that they are held to... tattoos are the physical accountablity of a desision of a thought...... if you regret desisions you make than tattoos are not for you....and  i feel very sad for you..... dont get me wrong.... i dont feel as if every action i have taken is the right one in my life by any means and trust me i have some not so pretty tattoos...but none the less they are mine both bad tattoos and bad desisions and i take them as a consiquence not as a punishment.......if you never make poor desisions how can you make wise ones.... when i lay on my death bed i hope that i feel like i have burned my body out and that i have left no stone unturned that i wanted unturned... i hope i do not look back and think about all the things i wish i should of done all the stones left unturned...... i hope this for everyone...a life of poor desisions is better than a life of no desisions...... failure is the mother of success...... nothing is the mother of nothing....

another assumption i often make but shouldnt is ...what people think a good tattoo is...... i assume everyone should know this...... this again is a wrong thought.....and obviously people have no idea what a tattoo is....this should have been evident to me long ago..... i guess everyone should at least know.....but how can they know unless there told.... dear tattooers... please start telling people what a good tattoo is..... even if your ideas are not mine.... tell them.... people dont know unless they are told and right now they are not usually getting told what a good tattoo is from the right source... and people... pintrest and google are lying to you.... these are not good tattoos.... bad tattoos generate more bad tattoos.... please stop this on both ends........

not every tattoo has to have some deep fucking meaning... get over yourself ... or should i say the programing that tv and your idiot cousin has given you......does every painting in your house have a meaning..... is everything in a frame in your living room words???? what happened to the power of tattoos.....the power of pictures and symbols......we as a society are moving so far away from our primal subconsious selves it is scary....... if you are drawn to get a tiger on your arm... do it.... there is a reason you are drawn to it.... your consious mind does not need to know why .... you will know  later... or maybe you wont... even better.... you dont have to spell out paragraphs on paragraphs of some words your consious mind understands.... how limiting....  tattoos are magic.... true there is magic in text... read that book .... listen to that song.... but really ..... tattoos should be tattoos... not those words  but the feelings need only to  be tattooed for your tattoo to be magical and powereful.... sure its fine if your tattoos mean something or if they are reminders.... my last tattoo was a snail... to remind me to slow down.... i didnt right ... slow down... just breathe .... or chill the fuck out.... on my arm.... sorry but a picture of a snail will bring far much more energy than some lifeless computer font that sits on your consious minds computer all day... lame... unplug..... find the magic of tattoos.....

which brings me to hopefully my last point in this rant....houses look usually like houses for a reason... sure they are stylistically often times very different but usually have the same basic makeup and structure.... walls ... floor .... roof....  sculpures often times look like sculpures... not to many sculptures are made to look flat.... those are called paintings.... paintings often times usually look like paintings... they are usually paint on something usually flat ... not always ... often times hung up on a wall or sat on a ledge of some kind.... yes all these have a certain prescience in our 3 dimensional world and have to adhere to some basic pricipal for them to be what they are.... a house is not a painting.... a house with two walls and no roof is not a house... its just two walls....  so yes .... you guessed it.... a tattoo also must adhere to certain principles ..... sure you can make to walls and call it a house.... but it just isnt is it......tattoos must be built like houses..... you can only take out so many walls before the roof comes crashing down and it is no longer structurally sound.....i hate to break it to most people on pintrest but there tattoos are built like a house with no walls.....tattoos like all other art are confined to a set of rules that it has to remain in or it is a failure.... if you take to much off of a clay sculpture you can always add some... if you take to much off a stone sculpture you are screwed... good luck gluing that rock piece back on where davids wiener is suppose to be.... ... tattoos are like the rock sculpture.....they have a small window on how they can operate outside this window , again is failure.....i know its cruel an unusual to say that tattoos do not need to emulate any other form or art... but tattoos are there own art... as a sculpture would not try to imitate a painting ..... thus a tattooer should not try to immulate other art forms with a tattoo....  translate yes perhaps.... but copy no..... tattoos should have there own form and style free from other artistic medium....
these songs have surfaced themselves to me recently i feel like they deserve a second listen........

sabbatical, t-shirts, lighting bolts

sab•bat•i•cal (səˈbæt ɪ kəl) also sab•bat′ic,- any extended period of leave from one's customary work

after being married to the sea so to speak for now the past 11 years i am taking a sabbatical...i will not be tattooing in kansas for  the month of july.... shirking off my daily routine of the past 11 years ... trading it in for fun and adventure of the open road... my plan as of now... is this.... load up the wife and kid  and start in colorado and go where the road leads us....and make as few plans as we possibly can.... i will be tattooing here and there along the way so if you are interested in getting a tattoo from me  or want me to come hang out with you at your shop please drop me a line so i can let you know if i make it to your area... i will have my nose to the grindstone this month before i leave... ..I AM GIVING YOU FAIR WARNING YOU HAVE PLENTY OF TIME TO GET A TATTOO OR FINISH A TATTOO BEFORE I LEAVE... as usual i will be taking walk ins from 11 to 7 tues through saturday..... o ya shirts are on there way ... i am super excited about them.... like the last ones they are being printed by local guru of printing phil ross and i believe they are the best yet.... and no they are not on white shirts this time.... they will be 30$ and like the last ones i make no apologies about price... they are this time printed on the american apparel tri blends...( a little softer than the cotton and dont shrink as bad over time) when you buy one you are not only supporting me and my family but phil and his and also american workers.... they will be available super soon and also will be available for shipping... i am super stoked on these... limited run at around 50 and when there gone there gone... no reprints.... this song sums up my feelings as of lately... thanks for reading...adventure is out there... xoxo

its shirt time again...

its shirt time again... and as usual i have no idea what i want to put on the shirts... you might recall the last run of shirts i did in chinese take out theme... but alas this old pony needs some new tricks.... so this is what i have decided to do.... i have drawn up some rough sketches of what i would like on the next red sea shirt... the only problem is i have drawn up 6 ..... i thought i was set on one but its hard to make decisions ... so anyway .... this weekend i will put all the shirt designs on the facebook and  the most likes gets it.... thats right ... you get to pick my next shirt design... if you like 2 or 3 its fine... you dont have to pick just one... heck i cant..oh and to motivate you one random person from the winning shirt who clicked the like button gets a free one.... and yes i do have some other fun up my sleeve for the next shirt design......hope everyone is well... family life is good as this flash sheet shows... momos birthday is coming up.... and here is a bad photo of a

cool tattoo from one of my sheets of flash...  thanks for reading and keep an eye on the facebook for the shirt designs... xo xo

dogs that need a good home...

these are our dogs pickles (the english bulldog) and mogwai (the boston terrier)... unfortunately we are trying to find a new home for them.... we are saddened by this but we feel they would be better off somewhere else.... they do not seem to be very good with our son morris ... they are not very child friendly and are very demanding of  attention that we can not give them since the arrival of our son...they are use to being the center of attention ..... we have tried to make this work now for the past year and it just isnt so we would like to find them a good home... we would like to keep them together if at all possible they have been together for the last 5 years and seem to work well with each other... they both seem to get along with other dogs well to... we wanted you to know what you were in for  if you are interested in owning our dogs...
so here are the cons..... both dogs are around 8 years old.... they are not young pups... pickles does not do well with a ton of steps and is not good for long walks and needs to be kept in a cooler environment as she can overheat easy.... although she is a sucker for a good frisbee... even in pickles old age she is

still more energetic than any other bull dog i have seen and has a ton of spunk..... mogwai has been known to be a chewer if left alone for to long so please keep her in a crate when you are not home... both dogs come with crates and are trained to sleep in them ..... both dogs eat not super cheap food....

so the pros.... these dogs are very affectionate dogs...they are very loyal and funny and have a ton of character.... they would be perfect for someone who can devote lots of time to them.... they are both very house broken ... they love to play and have fun....they would make someone really great dogs... again i dont recommend them if you have small children.... it saddens us to let them go but know there is a home that would be better suited for them... if you have questions please ask... also if you are interested but unsure we would be glad to send them home with you for a trial couple of days...  thank you for your consideration...

giving credit where credit is due....

i remember being 16 years old living in hutchinson kansas driving over to the big city of wichita to go to the bohemian bean in the eaton hotel.... back when wichita was still a little punk rock, dirty and more than a bit shady.... it was a  magical time in what i deemed to be a  magical city....i remember this punk rock girl sitting outside on the curb with a dragon tattoo on her forearm.... i had gotten tattooed a year before and was very interested in tattoos..... i asked to see her tattoo and couldnt believe how bad ass it was..... seeing pictures in magazines was far different than seeing the real thing in real life.... i couldnt get over how awesome this tattoo was it was so colorful and perfect... i asked her who did it and she said ron dolecek....i remember thinking... how in the world did he do this... her tattoo was so opaque and colorful.. i had never seen anything like it.....after i had started tattooing a year or so i finally got to meet the amazing ron dolecek at a tattoo convention inside the barn at the kansas coliseum .... this had to be 1998 or 1999....in our brief encounter i gleamed some words of wisdom that have stuck with me throughout my tattoo career...

back then you could only really buy tattoo magazines in one place... i believe it was called the city news it was located on seneca .... it was pretty much a porn store that sold tattoo magazines so it was always an interesting crowd ... every month i would try to go there to get the latest tattoo rag.... one month i stopped in and ron was busy occupying the tattoo section.... this was very intimidating to me as i didnt really know how to approach him and thought that for sure he would not remember me and i sure didnt have the balls to approach him...  conversely i didn't want to look like i was there shopping for porn mags... i remember anxiously walking around trying to find some middle ground to look at until he left.... while walking by the isle to see if he had left yet; he says to me... hey man come check this out...he held up this magazine and it was a tattoo that corey kruger had done of an ant farm... he said to me ... isnt this tattoo so bad ass...at the time i didnt really know what to do ... i just smiled and said yes not knowing really what else to say...i didnt really know what else to do so i tried to  introduce myself thinking for sure he would not remember me from a year or two before ....he looked at me and said sure man i remember you before i even had a chance to finish... we looked at tattoo magazines for awhile and i was scared to death i would say something totally stupid .... we parted with pleasantries and i rember thinking was all that a dream... did that really happen .... was the best tattooer i had every met just super cool to me....?  i couldnt believe it....keep in mind things were very different back then... there was only a hand full of tattooers in the whole state... you couldnt order supplies off the internet in fact there was no internet... you couldnt just call up a tattoo supply house you had to have a referal from another tattooer before they would sell to you... and even spaulding stuff you first had to have their number  and send them money before you could even get a catalog.... it was a very private magical club

many things have happened in the tattoo world ,both locally and worldwide ,since then some good some bad ....but one thing that has remained the same locally is ron has always been the standard in wichita tattooing.... for years he has always remained a few steps ahead of everyone else.... constantly raising the bar.....i shutter to think what wichita tattooing would be had he not been here... i shutter to think what my tattoos would look like had i not realized what tattoos could be by seeing his work.....

now a days it seems everyone and their cousin does tattoos.... it seems the influx of mediocre tattooers that think they are rock stars run rampant....people that have not learned the basics of  tattoos are in turn teaching others multiplying unmastered skills and dumbing down tattooing as a whole.... it seems many new comers dont care or understand where tattooing has come from and how it got to this place....to know the future you must know the past.... you are creating nothing new just more mistakes that have already been solved years ago .....although i do think this is true of wichita to an extent i feel there are more good than bad tattooers here...the more i travel the more i realize the tattoo public here has it pretty good... i know this is in large part due to rons influence over the past 20+ years...

change is an odd thing for me .... i find i struggle with it alot.... i have a hard time with computers and phones and the latest ways in which people choose to communicate....it seems there is always something being added to try to keep up with... just stopping by to say hello or hang out has been replaced with some digital mumbo jumbo....although i realize change can be a good thing  ... often times i have learned change brings both good and bad at the same time...

so first the bad... saturday marks the last day that ron will be tattooing in wichita... it truely is the end of an era.... i must say i am very sad to see him go he has truely made wichita tattooing what it is today... however i am  excited and happy for him as he sets out on a new adventure to colorado.... he has asked me to come tattoo with him at lucky devil on saturday to celebrate this event and i couldnt be more excited to do so..... word even has it he might have a bit of time in case you were wanting to get tattooed....i would like him to leave wichita with fond memories and soft goodbyes... all proceeds from the day will go to the "send ron off with fat pockets fund" because i think this is what not only i but wichita owes him... if you tattoo in this city its honestly because ron paved the way for you to... (trust me i know i was there ) ..... a big thank you card lined with money i think would be more than appropriate and would be a small memento of the respect and credit he so deserves....and if you give a shit about tattooing and tattooing in this city you will come down and get tattooed for no other reason to say you got tattooed at lucky devil on the last day ron was here... and even if you dont get tattooed come by and say hello we would love to see you.... it will be an epic day one that will be discussed in tattoo circles for years to come.... i hope to see you there....this saturday the 24th of november from 11am to whenever at lucky devil tattoo 551 west douglas...

many blessings... packed and ready...dfw

many blessings i receive but am undeserving.... the older i get the more i realize where blessings come from...

this was emilys car a year ago after someone pulled out and hit her....she unknowingly was 2 weeks pregnant with our son...god bless this honda accord-ian
so after a year of biting my nails trying to locate a safe and affordable car.... all while hoping my 200000 mile+ car would not break beyond repair  ..especially on that trip to the hospital.......we feel as though we have been super blessed and we are officially mobile....

momo has packed his bag and is ready to go!

so in the spirit of the headleys we are wasting no time... the first of many headley family road trips ! the shop will be closed friday and saturday and we are off to the dfw area to be with our friends matt and sam! its been way to long and i think we are behind them 30 trips or so ....

i will be tattooing somewhere saturday and sunday... im not sure where i might just go door to door when i show up...if it gets worked out ahead of time i will announce it....one thing i have gained with experience is knowing its alot more fun to just let it work itself out....to much planning takes out all the fun....anyway if you want to get tattooed message me on face book or just give me a call at the shop this week 316-303-0077....i wont set up an appointment with you but i will let you know where im going to be available for walk-ins...

i realized today i have a ton of flash i have been working on.... mostly remakes of old tattoos....tattoo designs that if they could talk we would all be the wiser... and some original designs from me... all drawn how i think they should be tattooed... clean bold and timeless tattoos your grandpa would like...i dont feel like you could get a better tattoo from me than what i have included in this past year of flash projects...i would like to only tattoo these designs ( i think i have over 70 sheets) they include.... pinup girls of all sorts, eagles, panthers, daggers, indians,gypsies, skulls, devils, angels , hearts, banners, racing, pirates, crosses, jesus, clowns, peacocks, mermaids, dragons, geishas, and snakes just to name a few.... you know all the cool stuff  ...stuff you will never see on pintrest...but if you have other ideas let me know ....haha heres a teaser....

















so i hope to see you out in texas....!

kansas residents.... lets stop and think...

(i must request if you start reading this than please finish it... also please watch every video and click on every link in order or you might miss what i am trying to convey with this article... thanks for your time!)

i am many things....the most important thing i am is a father..... i cant think of a more important job that one could do than this.... my son morris means the world to me.... he makes me the person i want to be not the person that i am...another super important thing i am is a husband. i feel i have the best wife that anyone on this planet has ever had. my family means the world to me...they have taught me to not only care about myself but to care about my surroundings.... i never cared about my body and my health until i met my wife ...she has taught me the importance of eating right, exercise, and staying healthy....my son has taught me about community and how important it is not only now but what i leave behind for him.... before him i didnt care much about my surroundings...i want to set a good example for him.. i want to teach him how important honesty is, how important others are and how if he doesnt like something about the way things are than he should work to change it (among other things)... he has already taught me many things...most of all he has taught me that things in this life are malleable .... things can change and for the better and faster than what you might expect.....12 months ago i was not a father had no idea i would ever be one and had no want of ever being one.... now i couldnt imagine him not in my life.... i would do anything for him.... as some of you might know we had some health scares with him early on (we were told he had glactosemia)... i am proud to report by gods grace he is completly healthy...during this time all other things i held important in my life got prioritised, well into the unimportant category.... i was ready to change everything for him and gladly would have... where i lived, what i did , what i ate, what i spend my money on, just to name a few... he has reset my priorites in life....he is my legacy what i leave behind... he is my recorder .... it is no longer art work or tattoos or people that i meet in passing that will record me .... he will record all my strengths and faults... after i am dead and gone he will say... .my dad la la la... i see this all day everyday at the tattoo shop... i wonder if people realize how much they talk about there parents... its alot, start paying attention and you will see...i want him to be proud of me... now i will  never be president or a millionare or something....i wouldnt want him to be proud of me for those things if i were them anyway but i want him to be stoked im his dad....not because i let him do whatever he wanted but because i was a good father and was available for him any time he needed me to be and i showed him the right way to do things not the easy way to do things.... morris has forced me to take a wider view of many things.... i dont think as i have gotten older i have become wiser but i diffently feel i have been blessed with a wider view on life....

as i started this whole thing out i am many things... i am a father, a husband, a tattooer, a business owner, a home owner (or it owns me anyway as many of you with old homes can attest) ,a christian, and to the suprise of some a person who thinks marijuana, cannabis, hemp or whatever you would like to call it should be legal....now before you make judgements please read on....


the united states classifies marijuana as a schedule 1 drug meaning it has no medicinal value... i have found this to be a lie ... a customer of mine with epilepsy tells me that after taking every drug on the market he finds marijuana to be the only thing that helps him not have seizures... i also find it odd that our government says it has no medicinal value when the fda liscenses such drugs like marinol that are based on the "bad stuff" in marijuana that cost upwards of 4,000$ a year ....to grow marijuana in your back yard garden would cost pennies ..... i am also told that one of the reasons marinol is not effective for cancer patients is that they cant keep it down or even swallow it ..... where as marijuana is supierior because it can be vaporized or smoked...it seems many things are starting to come out about the health aspects of marijuana...

i was suprised to watch this as i thought smoking marijuana was the bad way to go compared to eating it or vaporizing it... but it seems like more and more evidence is starting to come to light like this abc news article ....

but lets stop and think for a second ...... who smokes marijuana regularly....one of my all time favorites louis armstrong did he lived to be over 70  which doesnt seem very old but when your consider his life expectancy for someone born in 1901 was under 50 70 doesnt seem to shabby....willie nelson 's life expectancy is slightly over 60 he is still alive at age 80...diego rivera also out lived his life expectancy just to name a few... to me the idea that marijuana shortens your life just doesnt add up.... if marijuana took off 5 minutes of your life like cigarettes do we all know cheech and chong would already be dead.... where are the public service announcements with black marijuana lungs that came so easily with cigarettes... could it be that there is a difference .....

i watched  this the other day of a father who's son takes a cannabis tincture to help with his siezures it almost made me cry ... what would you do if you were in this mans position.... have you ever been faced with this? do you feel that the government truely cares for its citizens or maybe they care more about pharmacy profits..but we are not much better here in kansas since we make people move who need marijuana as a medication..its sad that we call ourselves christians but yet we make sick people move just because there medication doesnt align with what we think they should have.... this makes me ashamed to be a kansas resident....

the other thing that marijuana has greatly helped many with is their heads..there are many aspects to this im told from help with sleep to appetite  to relaxation this movie the botany of desire probably does a better job of explaining it than i can..fast forward to 2.21(the rest of this movie is great to check it out)

i have been trying to dig up facts of the harmful effects of marijuana... it seems as though we are not really 100% to sure what they are even after 12,000 years of the plant being around.... here are a few statements i have found from drugabuse.gov

Numerous studies have shown marijuana smoke to contain carcinogens and to be an irritant to the lungs. In fact, marijuana smoke contains 50-70 percent more carcinogenic hydrocarbons than tobacco smoke. Marijuana users usually inhale more deeply and hold their breath longer than tobacco smokers do, which further increase the lungs' exposure to carcinogenic smoke. Marijuana smokers show dysregulated growth of epithelial cells in their lung tissue, which could lead to cancer;⁶ however, a recent case-controlled study found no positive associations between marijuana use and lung, upper respiratory, or upper digestive tract cancers.⁷ Thus, the link between marijuana smoking and these cancers remains unsubstantiated at this time.

Research into the effects of long-term cannabis use on the structure of the brain has yielded inconsistent results. It may be that the effects are too subtle for reliable detection by current techniques. A similar challenge arises in studies of the effects of chronic marijuana use on brain function. Brain imaging studies in chronic users tend to show some consistent alterations, but their connection to impaired cognitive functioning is far from clear. This uncertainty may stem from confounding factors such as other drug use, residual drug effects, or withdrawal symptoms in long-term chronic users.

i found this one to be the most interesting.....

Marijuana increases heart rate by 20-100 percent shortly after smoking; this effect can last up to 3 hours. In one study, it was estimated that marijuana users have a 4.8-fold increase in the risk of heart attack in the first hour after smoking the drug.⁵ This may be due to increased heart rate as well as the effects of marijuana on heart rhythms, causing palpitations and arrhythmias. This risk may be greater in aging populations or in those with cardiac vulnerabilities.

so i did a little research on this statement.....and found this...
Mittleman, noted that as an immediate trigger for heart attack pot smoking is nearly twice as dangerous as sex for a sedentary person, exercise for a fit male or female, a tantrum of rage, or a bout of anxiety. But its less risky than a spurt of exercise for a couch potato or a snort of cocaine.


Despite the high percentage of people younger than 50 years old who report they use the drug – 12.5 percent – Mittleman doesn’t foresee an epidemic of pot-triggered heart attacks. For a 50-year-old baby boomer without other risk factors, like high blood pressure or high cholesterol, the absolute risk of having a heart attack in the crucial first hour after smoking marijuana is one in 100,000, he says.

hmmm ... so in other words our government has obscured the facts... maybe what they should have wrote was .... if you are a lazy couch potato and never exercise... marijuana may give you a heart attack... but dont run around the block because that will probably kill you first...


this statement was also on the national institue of drug abuse....

The potential medicinal properties of marijuana have been the subject of substantive research and heated debate. Scientists have confirmed that the cannabis plant contains active ingredients with therapeutic potential for relieving pain, controlling nausea, stimulating appetite, and decreasing ocular pressure. Cannabinoid-based medications include synthetic compounds, such as dronabinol (Marinol®) and nabilone (Cesamet®), which are FDA approved, and a new, chemically pure mixture of plant-derived THC and cannabidiol called Sativex®, formulated as a mouth spray and approved in Canada and parts of Europe for the relief of cancer-associated pain and spasticity and neuropathic pain in multiple sclerosis.
Scientists continue to investigate the medicinal properties of THC and other cannabinoids to better evaluate and harness their ability to help patients suffering from a broad range of conditions, while avoiding the adverse effects of smoked marijuana.


so we can make a drug to emulate something natural (so we can charge more for it possibly?)  "while avoiding the adverse effects of smoked marijuana"  which are what???? you havent made those clear....are you starting to see a pattern here.....

but the usa isnt all bad when it comes to marijuana ...they currently allow 4 people to receive federally grown marijuana.... no joke....you can watch a video on it here

now why would the government say its ok for these few people to have medical marijuana but not anyone else... are there conditions worse than others... hmmm doesnt make much sense to me but i guess keeping marijuana illegal doesnt make much sense to me either....it didnt make much sense to the us department of agriculture to make it illegal either evidently....

 hmmm so your saying we can grow many of our own textiles we now import from china? ya that seems like a horrible idea....there are many things we as americans can make from hemp from houses to cars to clothes etc... do 5 minutes worth of research you will find out...

it seems to me the worst thing about marijuana is marijuana laws.... im pretty sure jonathan whitworth would agree with me since a swat team broke in his house with guns drawn on his wife and child and shot his dog all for a misdemeanor amount of marijuana....who is the greater evil in this story.....

earlier i stated i was christian ... i tend to side with pat robertson on the idea of marijuana legalization

i do not feel god makes mistakes...he is the inventor of marijuana.... who is our federal government to say it has no place....

Genesis 1:29

New American Standard Bible (NASB)

²⁹ Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the ^[a]surface of all the earth, and every tree ^[b]which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you;

now dont get me wrong i do not believe children should have access to marijuana... i dont want my son to start smoking marijuana when he is 16, unless he has a medical condition that it can help... growing up in hutchinson kansas it was easier to get marijuana than beer at a young age... perhaps it was because alcohol is regulated... i think colorado has it pretty figured out . i do agree that regulation would help keep it out of the hands of young people.

so why now... why has this become such an issue for me...well first and for most my son.... if he decides to smoke marijuana as an adult for whatever reason i do not want him to go to prison i do not feel  for growing or ingesting a plant given to us by god he should be put  in the same room as murders and rapist. If my son would have a condition that marijuana would help i want him to have safe access to it. also I do not feel we should give our money to anyone but hard working green thumbed americans who grow marijuana, we are making criminals and people outside of this country rich this makes no sense to me. i know many people here in kansas that would vote to legalize marijuana for one reason or another many who dont smoke but would like it to be legal... police, teachers,parents, you name it... many feel they cant speak openly about marijuana without facing some sort of punishment from there neighbors.... well i know their neighbors feel the same way... we are afraid of ourselves.... i feel that if every person who was pro cannabis spoke out we would change this law in no time...... i am a hard working american who pays all my taxes and now as of this year i am a voter... i plan to work for and vote for laws to legalize and regulate marijuana in my home state of kansas.. i do think this is possible.. work is already being done by the fine people at kansas medical cannabis network. if you think marijuana should be legal please vote.... voting really can change this on a local level. politicians want jobs.... they work for us ... if they dont work for us lets get rid of them and find ones that do ... thank you for taking the time to read all this... i welcome any comments and also any debate to mattcicada@hotmail.com please feel free to repost this any where as i feel there is alot of information that needs to be spread

ps. i view my writing as prose ...so i have little need for punctuation or spelling..haha besides i draw pictures for a living....