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People I'd encourage to look at their own name's diagnosisisissss and symptoms:

• Kalle Joyce DeNazario Akers
• Kallen Joyce DeNazario Akers
• Amy Livingstion
• Augusta
• Sarah Livingston
• Spencer Nottingham (cnottinghamspen) - the dude who showed this Rx diagnosisis thing cause he posted it in his journal.
• Yolove (yolove)
• Yolanda
• Katie (lady_lightning)
• Katie Mary Barry (the definition of ectoplasm)
• Natalie Millis (soundofsilence)
• Natalie Caster Millis

           ... And try some others out. It's kind of crazy the results you might get.

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33 killed in Iraqi suicide bombings

IT'S OFFICIAL:

Marijuana use and possession by Denver adults, by law, is legal now. Maybe this fact hasn't been true long enough for it to completely sink in yet and perhaps there's still a lot of wrinkles to iron out, but whether you heard tomato or tomato, I-100 is good. It passed by 54 percent, or 56,001 voters, (guess who that fifty-sixth thousand and one guy was? Yep, buddy.) cast ballots for the ordinance, while 46 percent, or 48,632 voters, voted against it.

"It's still illegal in Colorado." -- Well, it's legal in Denver.

Don't believe it yet (it passed just yesterday)? Here, I encourage you to read up. Watch the news. Wherever you are, because this initiative is getting national attention right now. Some varying resources for varying minds:

• FOX31 News; Denver Residents Legalize Marijuana Possession
  (November 02, 2005) — Residents of the Mile High City have voted to legalize the possession of up to an ounce of marijuana.
• 9News; Voters speak, but Denver DA says pot still illegal
  DENVER - The Denver district attorney's office wants people to be clear that even though Initiative 100 passed Tuesday, it's still illegal to possess marijuana under state law.  They added a rarely used exclamation mark to the end of one sentence to drive home the point. more-> 

• Hammer of Truth

  “Mile High” Legalized in Denver Hammer of Truth - 3 hours ago A 54% vote in favor of legalization of possession of small amounts of marijuana for adults in Denver, Colorado may give new meaning to the city’s nickname as ...

• Pravda

  Relaxed pot law passes in Denver Summit Daily News, CO - 13 hours ago DENVER — Capping a sometimes bitter campaign rife with allegations ... of violent crime, residents Tuesday legalized possession of small amounts of marijuana. ... OK of pot issue gives new meaning to Mile High City Rocky Mountain News Denver legalizes pot dirt How High Will Mile High Be? Denver Votes On Pot Issue TheDenverChannel.com Washington Times - all 135 related » KARE Denver residents vote to legalize small amount of marijuana KARE, MN - 4 hours ago ... Morrissey's office has taken a number of phone calls from news agencies outside of Colorado inquiring about Denver's "marijuana law," according to Denver DA ...

• Ounce of marijuana allowed for adults in Denver
  Pravda, Russia - 10 hours ago
  Under the measure, residents over 21 years old could possess up to an ounce of marijuana in Denver, which is nicknamed the Mile High City for its elevation. ...
  Denver votes to legalise pot Times Online
  Rocky Mountain High: Denver Residents Legalize Marijuana RedState.org
  New Law Would Make Denver 1st City To Legalize Possession of 1oz ... ShortNews.com
  Seattle Post Intelligencer - United Press International - all 135 related »
• Denver voters OK marijuana measure 
  CNN.com - Nov 02 7:50 AM
  DENVER (AP) -- Residents of the Mile High City have voted to legalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana for adults. Authorities, though, said state possession laws will be applied instead.
• Denver Voters OK Marijuana Possession 
  ABC News - Nov 02 5:55 AM
  Denver Voters OK Measure to Allow Possession of Up to an Ounce of Marijuana for Adults
• Denver voters de-criminalize limited amounts of marijuana for adults 
  KBCI Boise - Nov 02 3:36 PM
  DENVER Denver officials say they'll sidestep a voter-approved city law that decriminalizes adult possession of an ounce or less of marijuana by prosecuting under state law.
• DENVER MAKES LIMITED MARIJUANA POSSESSION LEGAL 
  KPVI-TV - Nov 02 12:22 PM
  DENVER (AP) -- Denver residents say it's O-K for adults to possess up to an ounce of marijuana. They've made that legal, voting 54 percent to 46 percent yesterday.
• Denver voters nix city pot laws 
  UPI - Nov 02 12:19 PM
  DENVER, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Voters in Denver decided to junk the city's law on marijuana but police say they will bust pot users on state violations.
• Denver Residents Vote To Make Limited Amounts Of Marijuana Legal 
  WLBZ Bangor - Nov 02 3:53 PM
  DENVER (AP) -- City prosecutor Vince di Croce says the old city law prohibiting possession of small quantities of pot wasn't used much anyway. He acknowledges officers have a choice in how to charge people in such cases, which is punishable by a 100-dollar fine.

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I've thought for the past few days, (maybe a week, as I'm not sure as to how I'd pin-point it's origin and preceded/seeded developments) I was rather horribly depressed. Thinking my life had become sadly bleak and rather, well.. pitiful, I looked for its source. It had dawned on me that I was, in fact, not doing much, really and it felt like everything else that makes me up, was jumping out of my skin to do, well anything. I think that because it was also a holiday this weekend and a purely American "fun" one at that, made up of candy, ghosts, and pumpkins, that maybe that had contributed to it as well, most indubitably. I was also being made very aware of how good everything else was for everyone else it seemed and hearing their regaling tales of it all and catching glimpses of it from behind the counter at work (lots of dudes dressed down like ladies and Harry Potter seemed popular this year)..may have very well contributed to its spirit-robbing culmination for me. But.. today, I decided that I was going to lay the finger of blame on work. After not going to school in the morning, I decided that I was just burnt out from the hours I worked back to back every day since Friday til' today and that it really made it hard for me to be up and out and motivated to do much more then sit in this cold basement and catalogue my iPod, and decidedly called in. I was like, "..Dude told me not to eat the casserole..That it was left over from the Halloween pot-luck the night before and it was kinda rank even then, as well. It must be food-poisoning, but I'd promise, that I'm scared to leave or even move from this position I'm in, right now, on my couch." And..the important part is that I didn't lie.. about the important part. I was scared to leave that position on my couch, fearing I'd run into a deeper realization of the source of my sadness if I had and then, the blessful moment; my mom asked me to do her a favor. She asked me if I'd be able to pick up Emily from her bus-drop at 5 til' 4. She asked me from her bed where she laid, trying to be sleeping, sick as me, but only physically and with any opportunity given to me to drive ever now, I said yes without a second thought. Well.. It was about 2:45 then and I was like, fuck it, I'ma peace out and drive around for a bit and so I did. I was wearing shorts, shoes with no socks, a t-shirt and my Adidas cap-o-la. And for a second before I stepped out the door I considered taking a jacket as it had been cold as I can remember the days before, (Cold and miserable..the weather reflected my disposition and mood this weekend rather keenly.) but stepped out anyways because I was already at the door. I stepped out and God saved me: It was so, o so, delightful. The sun came down warm on me and everything was yellow and beautiful. So, o so, beautiful. I breathed deep the outside that I had forgotten about. And so.. I immediately came to a new conclusion that this, this right here was what I had been missing. This. The Summer. The sun. The setting. The sky. The wind. The ride. I got into the Tahoe and started that baby up. Turned on some tuneskies and was greeted by melody, and nothing had ever seemed so welcoming. I cranked that shit to whatever was the last bit of that volume dial and rolled the windows down as I pulled out into a bright, bright, sun-shining day. I was instantly healed, kind of surreal as its manifest on me, it left me.

So here's the point I'd like to press here, if you're ever depressed dear, go outside there. And if the weather's bad, no fear.. Put some music in your ears. Like ear-muffs, use it, to soothe it. Just do it.

Now.. I'd like to share with you the words that maybe will echo the melody of two great songs I listened to, driving around, this Tuesday afternoon:

(Jagger/Richards)

She would never say where she came from
Yesterday don't matter when it's gone
While the sun is bright
Or in the darkest night
No one knows
She comes and goes
Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday
Who could hang a name on you?
When you smile with every new day
Still I'm gonna miss you...
Don't question why she needs to be so free
She'll tell you it's the only way to be
She just can't be chained
To a life where nothing's gained
And nothing's lost
At such a cost
There's no time to lose, I heard her say
Catch your dreams before they slip away
Dying all the time
Lose your dreams
And you will lose your mind.
Ain't life unkind?
Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday
Who could hang a name on you?
When you smile with every new day
Still I'm gonna miss you...

how perfect, huh? Oh, and then the world-class rock station played a bit more nostalgia:

Tuesday morning,
Never looked so good.
I'm already in,
In a daydream.

The sun is shining,
To wake me up.
No one around,
Just me and the sky.
I'm already in,
In a daydream.

I'm already in,
In a daydream.

The sky is calling,
Calling out my name.
Telling me just to stay,
Stay and don't go away.
I'm already in,
In a daydream.

I'm already in,
In a daydream.

In a daydream...
In a daydream...
In a daydream...

Already in a daydream...

-The Freddy Jones Band

I've never been happier about calling in. Today was a very good day.

...Later that evening after lunch in a garden grove:

And then I walked. Let me make it clear right now how much I can not wait to have a vehicle again soon. I'm coming out...I want the world to know! (And not in any other sense besides literally.) But walking around as the sun set, snapping pictures of it every now and again from different positions on the earth's surface, with a box of 'White Cheddar Cheez-Its' under my left arm, the day after Hollow's Eve I was just delighted to come upon abandoned costume dishevelments and things every now and then. And I ate 3 Thin Mints right off the ground. I can feel all of my readers' repulsion right now, (its a strong sense I'm getting) but rest assured.. they were wrapped. Wrapped in silver, shiny, lustrous rappers. Hey, just be glad I didn't eat all the candy I found off the ground this evening cause that was actually quite a lot. What a crazy situation, what a crazy setting, what a mad mad world.

..Lil' Later:
I almost forgot, bitches...
!!!

Almost forgot it was election day and made it to the polling place down the street from my house at fire station 19 before 6:30pm (polls closed at 7).

One issue I'll tell you I voted "yes" to was, of course, that issue known as 'I-100'.. an initiative to legalize the possession and personal use of marijuana in Denver county up to and under an ounce for peoples 21 and older. .."I-100 generated a significant amount of media coverage due to attention-getting billboards placed by the supporters of the initiative, which seeks to legalize, in one's home, the possession of less than one ounce of marijuana. The billboards stressed that domestic violence would decrease in Denver if I-100 passed because more people would steer away from using alcohol and use marijuana instead. Tvert says it's a way to start talking about the impacts of alcohol use as compared to marijuana use. "(Alcohol) is more toxic, it is more harmful and it is more addictive than marijuana.""

Oh, and I've told a few people about this ish..now read about it [.here.] about this guy:

Brad Meyer, one of nearly 700 of Colorado's registered medical marijuana patients, says he grows the drug at home, not only for him, but other registered Coloradoans, who he provides the marijuana to.

Police confiscated roughly 60 plants from his property, claiming he had more plants than Colorado law allows. The law states that for every registered patient, 6 marijuana plants are allowed, with 3 or fewer being mature. Meyer says the law states he's allowed to grow as many plants as needed.

(He uses the drug for chronic pain..no joke.) *Snickers.