Due to all the heavy traffic this site has been getting we had to upgrade the servers hosting this site and replace them with newer, more powerful technology. We also have it set up now where comments in the blogs will be done through vbulletin, so to comment now you just have to register for the forums and your login and password will also allow you to comment here.
If you had already registered for wordpress and had been posting comments here before, I apologize but you’ll have to re-register now. This just makes commenting easier and consolidates the two groups so that if you post comments you can also post in the forum.
Now, if you’ve only read my blogs and have never visited the forums it’s a pretty cool and unusual place. There’s over 2,000,000 posts there, and anytime ANYTHING fucked up or interesting is happening on the internet I can guarantee you’re going to find it on that board. It’s a very eclectic group of people discussing everything from democracy, to animal attacks, to conspiracy theories, to scientific discoveries, to shit eating porn.
It’s all in there. It’s a very addictive place to visit. Lots of really, intelligent, funny people post there, along of course with the usual gangs of douche bags that any anonymous internet forum attracts.
The way we have it set up on the forums is that I didn’t want to censor anyone, but a few annoying individuals can really ruin the atmosphere of a message board. Instead of banning them, we decided to create a sub forum for people with behavior problems called “Special Ed.” In there the posters banished to the sub forum get pink names and are only allowed to post there.
Regular posters can choose to post in either forum. It’s a nice way of avoiding censorship while still weeding out the douchey-ness.
There’s some truly epic threads on the forum, one of the greatest being “pic of the day.” It’s a thread where people post any fucked up or cool image that they find on the internet. There’s thousands of insane, beautiful and horrendous pictures in there. The only rule is don’t post anything that’s illegal, and don’t be an asshole. So please sign up, and please feel free to post on the board and for the folks that were already registered to post in the older blog here please re-register so that you can continue to post comments here. I really, really appreciate them, and I really appreciate all the feedback that I get from writing this blog. I’m glad some of you enjoy it, and that certainly motivates me to keep writing more new shit for you guys.
I’m working on one about my trip to Germany, and I hope to have it done either tonight or maybe tomorrow.
Also, if you’re going to be in Vegas this weekend, I’m hosting a party at Tao Nightclub at the Venetian Hotel to celebrate my comedy special premiering on Spike TV this Saturday night. Joey Diaz and Ari Shaffir will be joining me, so if you’re going to be out there come on out and join in the fun. We’ll take lots of pictures, and if you’re lucky Joey will show you his balls.
How do you work this thing… is that you Joe? Can you hear me…?
Holla back?
OMFG!!!! He heard me!!!!111
Take THAT Mrs. Derschowitz! I always knew you were a shitty guidance counselor. Well I’m talking to MISTER FREAKING HOLLYWOOD JOE ROGAN NOW!
Things are gonna change for me… I can feel it.
o hai gais
Who farted?
Hey Joe, You’re the man, keep up the good work. I saw you’re twitter comment about Drew Griffin’s shockingly dumb article on pot and I tried to comment only to find out that commenting had been disabled- probably something to do with the high volume of ganja users and Roganites who couldn’t let an article like that be written without a response. Here’s what I wrote and I’m going to post this as a comment on his next article. I feel like someone needs to read it and you might appreciate it. Forgive me, I borrowed you’re giraffe pussy line.
Dear Drew,
Forgive me, but us losers have a propensity to rant. I read your piece and I just wanted to make a few points.
First of all, are you aware of how may artists, writers, musicians, actors, comedians, etc. associate marijuana with creativity? To you this may be beside the point, I can tell from your writing style (nice literary intro!) that you’re not so interested in creativity. And, artists are invariably “losers” and weirdos and burdens on society and who needs culture anyway? It is merely one of the fundamentals of what makes us human. So let’s assume for the sake of argument that a young opium smoking Picasso (Who needs modern art, so nonsensical!) and a young pot smoking John Lennon (I’ve always thought the Beatles were over-rated anyway) or Norman Mailer and Hunter S. Thompson (besides Drew, you’re a much better journalist and writer than those guys)… let’s assume that all those losers and their numberless colleagues are irrelevant.
So now that the creativity link is mute, let’s move on to what must be your thesis: If marijuana is legalized, society will turn into an amorphous mass of lazy Dorito inhaling parasites. Everybody knows that pot makes you tired, undisciplined, and soft right? Yeah, I thought that too until I started playing high school sports and realized that many of the best athletes at my school would get high right after practice. How could this be!? So I started smoking, curious yet worried that the ganja wouldn’t work out quite as well for me, but you know what happened? I became a much better athlete, because my perspective on sports changed. I saw strategies unfolding before they happened, I wasn’t as nervous, I was more in the moment. In college I was a member of a Division 1A crew team that ended the year ranked among the top boats in the nation despite the fact that half of our team toked regularly. At this point, somebody might argue that many potential professional careers have been casualties of drug use, and the fact that I’m merely relating high school and college experiences isn’t convincing enough. How then, do you explain the fact that “over half” of the NBA is blazed before every game according to Charles Oakley? How do you explain the undeniable optic evidence of the greatest Olympian of all time sucking a massive cloud of bong smoke into his freakishly capacious lungs? How do you explain Arnold Schwarzenegger burning a joint after his 5th Mr. Olympia victory? How do you explain the friends of Bruce Lee who recount his fondness for chewing cannabis leaves? Once again I could go on, but I will spare myself, as I doubt you could bothered with reading these comments anyway.
So the greatest creative minds and physical specimens on earth like getting high, but these people have no tangible effect on the progress of human civilization right? People like art and sports for the trivial entertainment they provide right? The point now, is that people who smoke pot are just plain immature, irresponsible, mental Lilliputians. Potheads are dumb right? Didn’t they tell us it kills brain cells? Well Drew Griffin CNN Special Investigations Unit (by the way, congratulations on being promoted from “CNN investigative correspondent) you almost had me on this one but there are a few too many glaring discrepancies in this argument for me to accept it. Are you familiar with the work of Carl Sagan? Did you know that he was a regular marijuana user? Eminent evolutionary biologist, paleontologist and author Stephen Jay Gould was one of the most avid advocates of legalization and use. Francis Crick mapped out the structure of DNA with the help of James Watson and LSD-25. Need I remind you that your own boss, Ted Turner is known to have inhaled frequently (here, of course, I am quoting our lovably hypocritical president who also inhaled) Once again, I will refrain from continuing on although I could easily make a novel out of this comment.
Backed into a corner, my opponents will claim that I only illuminate the experiences of the fringes of society. The artists, the scientists, the mystics… in short the shapers of history. But here, my dear Drew I must relate to you that I grew up in an affluent neighborhood where many of friends parents, be they respected lawyers, stockbrokers, business owners, etc were known to smoke the devils cabbage. From suburbia I moved to a poor urban college town where people also enjoyed getting high. In my 23 years of life I’ve lived in upstate New York, northern New Jersey, San Francisco and Miami and there have been marijuana users from all sections of society everywhere that I’ve been. The truth is Drew, that the friendly neighbors in your friendly neighborhood could be getting high right now and you would never know because nobody wants to get high with an ignorant, judgmental ass with a boring prose style and a hilariously bloated job title.
Do you even know the reason marijuana is illegal? If not, I would refer you to Jack Herer’s book The Emperor Wears No Clothes. At the end of your denunciation you seem to imply that it is an issue of physical health “If nothing else, we should be telling our children that no matter what it is, putting smoke into your lungs is unhealthy” I agree, putting smoke into your lungs is unhealthy but
A) That is no reason to make a relatively benign plant illegal and then prosecute those who use it
B) Marijuana does not have to be smoked. I work out 5 days a week and to preserve my endurance I either use a vaporizer or eat foods with the THC baked into them
Drew, you have to understand, it is not an issue of mental or physical health, it is an issue of the government prostituting the people’s civil liberties. I recently spoke to a citizen of China who was here studying abroad at Cornell and I asked him how the civil liberties of the China and the United States compare and he told me that he though China was MORE FREE! He expounded upon how fouled up the legal system is here and how lawyers and police do almost as much harm to the United States as good. I have a friend who is in the Peace Corps in South America where the citizens refer to the United States as “land of the lawyers” and pitied him for living in the U.S. when he was supposed to be there to help them!
So what do I propose, anyone who is still reading may ask?
I propose that we treat marijuana like alcohol. I’d set a legal age of at least 18. Next, I would supplemented the tax dollars legalization would generate to the tax dollars we’d save from lower prison populations and I would use this money to make massive improvements in education, healthcare, etc. I shudder to think of how much tax money we’ve spent on the counterproductive wars on drugs and terror. Take away these two wars and we’ve got a much larger and more focused military and police force. Maybe we could focus more on border patrol, which, I argue would be a much more effective way to protect the citizens of our country against attacks.
If that argument seems too radical for you Drew, then how about this: Maybe we can simply follow the constitution and legalize marijuana where the people vote to legalize marijuana.
Giving people civil liberties is risky Drew, but this is life and it’s the only life that we can be sure we have. I’m a human being and you’re a human being, and every bureaucrat, congressman, senator, on up are all human beings and we have to learn to live and let lie to a certain extent. Your article betrays the fact that you have little to no experience using marijuana. You are glib, and the fact that you are a respected journalist is indicative of why we have very few principled politicians left in Washington to combat the inane, destructive assault on civil liberties that you are contributing too.
P.S. Being a loser is legal, and that explains why the entire staff of CNN hasn’t been locked up after being beat mercilessly in the ratings by blowhards like Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck time and time again.
For those that aren’t fortunate enough to attend this party and considering you come back to L.A. in one piece after this weekend of epic proportions – will you be having any under the radar local Hollywood Improv sets soon so others can also congratulate you in person?
If only I lived in Vegas.