Just When You Think You've Hit Bottom

...someone throws you a shovel.

The nightly news just ran a piece on the horrors of a new drug, known on "the street" as Jimson Weed, or just plain Jimson. Seems one kid in our little township picked a random plant in the woods, dried it, and smoked it. And now it's a crisis!

How you can say the words "the street" and Jimson Weed in the same sentence without giggling hysterically is beyond me, but the newscaster did just that.

And for crying out loud, carpet's got more chemicals in it than Jimson Weed...you can probably get high smoking carpet fibers! Or the new trend in prisons...fermenting sewage. What are we going to do, make forgetting to flush a felony?

God forbid someone wants to chemically alter their conciousness. And God forbid a parent takes some responsibility for snookums's stupidity instead of expecting the government to waltz in and ban Jimson Weed.