Fuck The Noise

Even in the house it was LOUD.  Probably the loudest thing I have ever experienced but at a normal, predictable interval.  You would begin to time your sentences with little pauses with the rest of the lighthouse crew so you would talk like this while making your………..HORN…………. tea and then carry on talking because you knew when it would go off.  It rattled the walls and the dishes in our cabinet.

At least one girl had died there. They kept photos of her everywhere “in honor of her sacrifice” because she had decided to take the winter watch alone and died in a storm where bounders the size of mini vans had been lifted out of the ocean and left scattered across the island, to say nothing of the ice chunks.  People weren’t allowed to be alone on the watch after that.

One day a dead moose washed up on shore and it took my entire crew all day but we managed to rig up a line to hang it up to dry because we thought having a moose skeleton in the house would really spice the living room up a bit.  It did.  Weird shit happens when six of you are left alone, like ALONE ALONE, no cell reception, no wifi, just a radio to contact the real world and not a lot of reason to do that.  People don’t go on lighthouse jobs if they want to stay connected, I’ve found.

americans collectively paid $3.5 billion to fund the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) in 2021 through taxes

the DEA costs $6,500 per minute

in total, americans pay $47 billion per year in taxes to fund drug prohibition.

in 2019, more people were arrested for marijuana possession than all violent crimes put together

the vast majority of these arrests are for possession alone

one in five people incarcerated have drug-related convictions

on average, someone is arrested for a marijuana-related offense every 90 seconds.

despite roughly equal usage rates, Black americans are 3.73 times more likely to be arrested for possession of marijuana than white americans 

Black americans make up 24% of the people arrested for possession, but only 13% of the country’s population.

support for legal marijuana is at an all-time high: 91% of americans support legal marijuana for medical uses, and 60% support legal marijuana for recreational use as well.

yet over 40,000 people in the united states wait out prison sentences up to life for a crime that no longer exists in the place they were convicted

the legal marijuana industry is worth $61 billion

if you are american and pissed off by this, please remember to fucking vote. if you aren’t american or if the polls just aren’t open, check out the last prisoner project and consider donating or volunteering. if you’ve vetted any other related charities, please reblog and add them on, especially if they’re regional/local groups. LPP is what i’m most familiar with.