Since we have been here since 1995, it means basically we were the worlds first Blog. The difference? Everybody can view my page because we don't have any 1000k pages that take forever to load and are nearly impossible to navigate or search.
When I was barely a teenager I saw a bumper sticker that read "Question Everything" That hit a note with me and made sense. So I have spent the last thirty five years questioning everything. What is printed in these pages before you are the questions I tackled, as well as the answers and conclusions I have come to believe in
When I started this publishing adventure, the original Web Station
#19 was stored on 5 1/2 inch floppy disk.
It was called web station #9 then and was on compuserve.
Along the way we made an art gallery, posted bad poetry, hosted presidential campaigns,
and even promoted concerts, and held protests and rallies.
In June 1998, we were named favorite thing in
the Hightimes Hemp 100 by High Times readers.
Web Station #19 remained on that list for over a year. Times changed people moved on
but we stayed at aol until they decided to longer host web pages.
I moved what I could to the new site here.(http://webstation19.8k.com)
The collective works here represent the several writers working independently
and the comments of hundreds of others. Much of the site is humorous, some is reference,
most of it true, some embellished, some just plain fiction...
What currently is here is basically a mirror site that originally appeared on aol.
It talks about politics, drugs, and greatly bashes our worst president ever.
While the discussions here are referring to 1980 - 2010 it sad to say that everything
is still current, nothing has been fixed, and even sadder if you go back and read
about the sixties and seventies the same problems remain no matter how many millions
of people point out the obvious, there are still those oblivious... We call them Congress.
Our foremost purpose at this point is to make sure America never forgets what happened at
Rainbow farm.
When I first discovered the web, it was a wondrous place, where a person could
go and find just about anything one desired. All you had to do was go to your favorite
search engine and enter a couple of key words to match your mood, and in just seconds
you were off to an art gallery, a reference library or a far away place. They called
it surfing in those days and a good surf could often carry you away for six even
eight hours, all for free...
Enter capitalism, cookies, pop ups, ad banners, fake
search engines, redirects and mis-directs. Web sites come and web sites go and when
they go, you get 404 errors or pornographers buy up the web address and sites that
formally promoted Steven Gaskin for president are now devoted to college girls engaged
in kinky sex.
The goal of this site is to provide entertainment, information and a real surf into realms unknown in a fast loading format. This is why we have low graphics and over 500 htm files and around a thousand off site links, which I try to carefully monitor to assure they still go where I expect them to go... Many of these places you'll never get to from a search engine.
You will however find all kinds of stuff to read and to look at..
We have Art, Humor, Politics, Music, Activism, Poetry, news, prolix tales, information archives
and lots and lots of opinions...
What's
all this Marijuana and war on drugs stuff about?
In any given subject topic there are usually several different view points,
In our current political situation only two are expressed very loudly, that of the
Republican party and that of the Democratic party, which more and more are exactly
the same and we now know as Republicrats...
Especially on the "drug problem".
Which leaves anyone who has any different opinions out in the cold. We present those
different view points along with the people opinions and facts... something that
the government's arguments completely ignore... Outlawing hemp makes as much sense
as outlawing cotton, well actually less if your up on that topic. Prohibition of
smoking pot makes as much sense as outlawing masturbation, well they did that too...
The real point here is that we don't need Big Mother make personal, cultural decisions
for us. Did they have to pass a law to get sky divers to use parachutes? We can't
be free and expect to prohibit everything that offends someone else. So
Yes there is a lot of stuff here about Marijuana...
