The high cost of weed

An article at HuffPo says the price of marijuana in the United States is highest where it's illegal. Check out their graphic. It rates areas of the country from lowest price for an ounce ($150) to highest ($400). I beg to differ.

New Jersey has a medical marijuana law that Christie was basically forced to enact. Here's a snippet from that era:

Christie fought an expansion of medical marijuana, until the legislature included several changes — and until public pressure mounted. "He kind of got backed into a corner by so much pressure," Ken Wolski, chief executive officer of the Coalition for Medical Marijuana New Jersey, told Reuters.

Isn't he wonderful? As a result of Christie's machinations, the lucky sick people of New Jersey who need medical marijuana for pain are charged $400 an ounce. Through my close kinship with the common peoples of the world, I've discovered that an ounce of illegal marijuana in this area (NY/NJ) costs only $200.

NJ's governor sure has a sick streak kind heart. Thanks a lot, Christie, you fat slob.

Our lady of the tree trunk

You really have to read this story in the Times. I roared laughing all the way through. Here's an excerpt:

Carmen Lopez, of Passaic, N.J., noticed the knot on July 5 while car-pooling to her job at a perfume factory in Edison, N.J. She brought it to the attention of two priests, the West New York police and finally the mayor.

“Here it’s perfectly clear,” she said in Spanish. “It’s the true one.

Ms. Lopez said that in 2003 she was one of thousands who saw a tree stump found in a Passaic junkyard that many believed also looked like Our Lady of Guadalupe (that shrine was vandalized in May of this year). Ms. Lopez added that the difference between the two is that the one in West New York is more vivid. 

Indeed. Go read the whole thing. You need a laugh.