When Your Tobaccy's Too Wacky

Weed is now legal for recreational use in California...legally. For years you hippy sons of bitches have been smoking it regardless. But my friend turned me on to an issue that I hadn't considered when it comes to the mass production of marijuana. No, not if it is organic or not. Fuck that. How about them pesticides? Yeah. That thought never crossed my mind until Cam mentioned it after listening to a podcast discussing it. Besides trying to figure out licensing and banking these shops and the consumers need to know what is being sprayed on shit that they will be smoking and in some cases eating. 

Right now there are over 1,300 medical dispensaries and they have until the middle of this year to sell all their possibly poisoned weed. I am making it sound way more dramatic than it is. Or maybe not dramatic enough. I have self diagnosed mental issues and can't always tell the difference. By summer time there are going to be stronger standards about having crops tested for pesticides and the amount so be worried when shit becomes cheaper in June. Under California's current marijuana laws it is said that less than 5% of the inventory has been tested for contaminants. Some of these can be fungicides and rodent killers.

Kids These Days 13

Bet you’re wondering why there’s an image of a delicious milkshake right there. Yeah. Looks really good, doesn’t it? Well, a couple of teenage girls in Rocklin, California are in trouble for drugging their parents by spiking their milkshake with sleeping pills. This is some shit straight out of Tiny Toons. ---

Now, you may also wonder why a couple of teens would slip prescription sleeping pills into their parents milkshakes. Well, they wanted to use the internet. That’s all. Apparently they have a ten o’clock curfew and after that the internet is turned off. They didn’t like it so they slipped them a mickey and got to use the internet. That is until the parents woke up feeling like shit and got a drug kit from the cops. They tested positive and went back to the cops. The teens, one of whom was theirs and the other her friend 15 and 16 respectively, were taken to juvenile hall and booked on “suspicion of conspiracy and willfully mingling a pharmaceutical with food.”

The Search Continues...

“The County of Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department and the City of Los Angeles Police Department will join forces for a major field search of the greater Lost Hills/Malibu Canyon area on the morning of Saturday, Jan. 9, for the Watts woman who disappeared after being released from the Lost Hills Sheriff’s Station on Sept. 17.”


Today my friend went hiking in Malibu and said she saw a ton of police looking for a missing woman. I hadn’t heard about any recently missing women in the past week or so and just tossed a guess out that it was this chick I’d heard about last year. Like, months ago. Surely they couldn’t have still been searching for her?


Indeed they are. Mitrice Richardson went missing after being released around 1am on September 17th. That’s a long ass time ago. It started when she was at a restaurant in Malibu and could not pay her bill ($89). The employees also reported that she had been behaving strangely. Talking to random customers and such. The cops come, find a small amount of weed in her car, and arrest her.


The stories are conflicting as to the events that followed her arrest. The police say she was offered the chance to stay there until night outside of her cell. She refused and left never to be seen until this day. There have been some sightings of her reported a while ago of her sleeping on someone’s porch but nothing really since then. When she was let go she didn’t have her car as it was left in Malibu. She also didn’t have her I.D, a phone, or any money. Pretty shitty situation.


It was also reported that she suffered from mental health issues. The stories about this case are flying all over the place. Being Black means of course that race is being brought up with the belief that if she were White that more would’ve been done to look for her. The fact that she was in Malibu which isn’t known as the Blackest places in the state. "What the Sheriff's did to my daughter is criminal and it could happen to yours" her father has been quoted as saying. He believes that the arresting officers need to be investigated into his daughter’s disappearance.


This is a fucked up situation all around. But one theme I have noticed from reading about this story on numerous blogs is the race issue. Yes, she is a Black woman. But that should not be the primary focus. What’s important is her being found. The LAPD has turned this into a possible murder investigation. Is she dead? No one knows. And sometimes that’s way worse than knowing. Click here to donate to the family of Mitrice Richardson or to read about her story.


Rockets.

Rosscast Episode 12: The Drowning Pool

In this episode I babble about taking care of your damned kids, why you can't blame doggie doors, Miss California, cencorship, and older men dating younger chicks. I noticed that for some reason there is an extra 2 minutes after the podcast. Ignore it. There's nothing there. Enjoy!

Miss Californiacation

"Well I think it's great that Americans are able to choose one or the other. Um, we live in a land that you can choose same sex marriage or opposite marriage and, you know what, in my country and in, in my family, I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anybody out there. But that's how I was raised and that's how I think that it should be between a man and a woman."

This was Miss California Carrie Prejean giving her opinion on gay marriage. This has caused quite a stir and I’m sitting here trying to figure out why. All she did was give her opinion. That’s it. Is she not allowed to do that? Let me tell you something you may not be aware of: Miss California, Miss Universe, and Miss America pageants mean nothing! That’s right, I said it. When they win these things it doesn’t give them any special privileges. They don’t get to eat for free, join Congress, or get a super power. They get a title that means shit to no one except the person in the pageant and apparently Perez Hilton.

Okay, we get it. You’re gay, dude. He called her a bitch and said that he would rip the tiara off of her head if she won. Get over yourself. If she believes that toilet paper should be rolled down underneath and not over does that make her a bad person? No, it just means she does things differently. She believes that only dudes and chicks should get married. Okay. Then we move on to the swimsuit portion where all these chicks with the same exact body and damn near the same face parade on stage while my penis takes a nap.

And how do I feel about gay marriage? I don’t care. I don’t think its right for a state or country to not allow people to marry one another because they were born liking the same sex. But then I don’t think multiple marriages should be allowed. Perhaps two top. Drew Barrymore had been married twice and each time it was for a year. She’s done. No more even though every year she finds “the one” and then its over and we don’t say anything about it. If I had a talk show I would ask her, “So what the fuck’s your deal with men?” What was I talking about.

Yeah, I don’t think people say to themselves one day “I wanna be gay. I wanna have the threat of being beaten or killed because of who I choose to love. I want my family to stop talking to me. I want a general feeling of unsafeness (new word alert) in my life. That sounds awesome!” People are born gay. Deal with it. But…

I think there is this percentage of people that are gay by choice. If you are one of these people then choose early and don’t fuck people over by marrying them, having kids, then getting a wild hair (or dick) up your ass and telling your wife that the past few years were a sham and now you’re leaving to live with Lance in Palm Springs.

Rockets.

This Is Where You Wanna Be!

"I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack." - Russell Crowe.

Fuck you, Russell.

I get so tired of people talking shit about California. The messed up thing is that most of the people that talk shit about my state are people from other states and the people they are talking about are people that weren’t even born in my state! Its like a circle of stupid.

My state rocks ass. You can drive in any direction for an hour or two and experience desert, beach, or snow. How many other places can say that? We have floods but its usually in rich ass places so it doesn’t count. Some people are like “Oh, you guys have earthquakes!” And? I would rather sit around and have my state squeeze out a 5.0 fart than know that my house is going to get blown away every single year. We get forest fires every year but don’t have any friends that live in a forest so its all good.

We have action. Have you ever seen our news? High speed chases, bitches. There is nothing like sitting at home bored and then all of a sudden there is breaking news and you have a free show for the next couple of hours. How will it end? Will he crash? Will he get shot? Will he do something crazy like blow his brains out on live TV? I don’t know! Either way I am glued to the screen and waiting for the next chase.

Not everyone in California is concerned with how they look and all materialistic. That shit is a myth that is constantly being perpetuated by people, like I said, that don’t come from here. They think its what they are supposed to do and just keep it going. People that are born and raised in California are special. We can spot bullshit from a mile away. We’re not like New Yorkers constantly bragging about how tough we are. We have a calm type of crazy. We know how dangerous our streets can be. The last thing we need to do is walk around bragging about how bad shit is some places. No one is sneaking into South Carolina. Hmm. Maybe that isn’t something to brag about.

I can give you a list of places to go if you ever decide to visit my state. Fuck that. My city. If you’re ever in L.A here are some places to go.

1. Hollywood. Just to say you went. Nothing there but tourist traps and weirdoes. It is way dirtier than it seems on TV. And its really short. If you know where to look you can find some cool little shops to grab some stuff at.

2. Venice Beach/Santa Monica Pier/3rd Street Promenade. You can start at 3rd Street and make your way down to the Pier and mosey on over to Venice. Lots of things to see, a cool beach, and lots of folks looking really good or really bad.

3. Chinatown/Little Tokyo. Lots of cool shit to check out. They have some awesome places to eat and cool shops where everything is cheap.
4. Sunset. Sunset is cool if you have money to waste. I don’t so I only ride the bus on Sunset. Just take that bus to Westwood or stay on the bus and head to the beach. Yes, you can take a bus from Downtown L.A all the way to the beach in an hour. Cool, huh?

5. South Central. People talk shit about what is now known as “South L.A” but if you know where to go you can find some really cool places to shop. The best food is in or near the worst neighborhoods. Burgers so greasy you can see them through the bag. Ribs that will raise your blood pressure. I miss living in South Central just for the food alone.

Hope that helps you out some. L.A isn’t as glamorous as it seems on TV but its still cool. I love my city and state and never want to leave. You can keep your tornadoes, floods, snow storms, hurricanes, black ice, and volcanoes. I love L.A.

Rockets.