Poll Time! The Greatest Head of All Time

[mpd]

Yes, boys and girls; it is time for yet another stupid MPD poll where you are going to have to actually use your brain for something other than drug testing...

Who is the greatest head of all time? It's not as easy a question as you would think...

 

[Classyathome]

1 write in vote for Tommy Chong...

 

[ureapwhatusow]

hunter s thompson of course

 

[Owl Mirror]

TWO HEADS are better than ONE !

 

[Pinball Wizard]

my favorite head....

 

[Anima]

Count another write in for chong.
I don't hot box a room... I CHONG IT UP!!!

 

[Harvest Time]

BOB MARLEY!!!!!!...ANYONE...WHATS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?>!?!?!?!?!

 

[DoffCocker]

Howard Marks

 

[Hank Hemp]

What about my name sake-Hank Williams? OD in the back of a caddie, now that's hard core.

 

[Sam the Caveman]

Aaawww, this wasn't the thread I thought it was going to be.

I'd say Monica Lewinski, that would have to be the most famous head of all time for sure.

 

[mpd]

All excellent choices and I considered none of them other than Bob Marley. Forgive me, but I did say it was another STUPID mpd poll!

In the case of Bob Marley, much of his work was inspired by Peter Tosh so I put Peter in instead of Bob.

Cheech and Chong are two different people, so they are disqualified.

Hank Williams is a grit; automatic disqualification.

Howard Marks came from the shallow end of the gene pool; automatic disqualification.

The entire cast of Easy Rider is disqualified because the film was directed by Hopper during his "barbiturates period" and produced by Fonda whose sister is an anti-American asshole (double disqualification).

 

[JamieShoes]

Howard Marks obviously


Shallow end...hehehe he comes from Wales, a country with its own language and bloodlines and a recorded history more than 2000 years old... shallow end.. hehehe (edited)

 

[Hydro-Soil]

I thought you meant when I had that conversation with my parents, as my wife was giving me head. LOL

Nevermind

 

[mpd]

Hunter S. Thompson was eliminated because he was an illiterate bum who was discharged from the Air Force for Other Than Honorable Conditions; automatic disqualification.

 

[Gypsy Nirvana]

.....Moi!....lol..


*maybe William Burroughs?

 

[Hughesy]

Spill the beans on Hunter S Thompson. C`mon lets get some grubbies on cause i feel its gonna get dirty.

 

[mpd]

Sorry, GN. You are disqualified for pretending to be an angel; automatic disqualification - it's right there in Section 420, Paragraph 4, Item 20: "Any and/or all applicants for the position of "Greatest Head" must not be people pretending to be angels or using angel-like apparatuses for the purposes of deceiving voters into thinking God has already bequeathed unto them special status." See also The Holy Bible, Genesis 420:42.

Hunter was dishonorably discharged. It's right in the front of Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas as a post note to the Forward. It is cited in my new book The Fix about to come out in hardcover next week.

The rules clearly state that people who can't read (and it can be said that Hunter could not read - what else explains that type of behavior?) cannot be nominated.

 

[Hank Hemp]

What's wrong with getting a less than honorable. Most my Bros have them. You in the service?

 

[SOTF420]

Timothy Leary is the only one who filed a huge lawsuit against the U.S. Government in it's own Supreme Court (and WON) over Cannabis prohibition, so he gets my vote.

Quick little blurb:

Until 1937, consumption and sale of cannabis was legal in most American states. In some areas it could be openly purchased in bulk from grocers or in cigarette form at newsstands, though an increasing number of states had begun to outlaw it. In that year, federal law made possession or transfer of cannabis (without the purchase of a by-then-incriminating tax stamp) illegal throughout the United States. This was contrary to the advice of the American Medical Association at the time. Legal opinions of the time held that the federal government could not outlaw it entirely. The tax was $100 per pound of hemp, even for clothes or rope. The expense, extremely high for that time, was such that people stopped openly buying and making it.

The decision of the U.S. Congress was based in part on testimony derived from articles in the newspapers owned by William Randolph Hearst, who was heavily interested in DuPont Inc. Some analysts theorize DuPont wanted to boost declining post-war textile sales, and wished to eliminate hemp fiber as competition. Many argue that this seems unlikely given DuPont's lack of concern with the legal status of cotton, wool, and linen; although it should be noted that hemp's textile potential had not yet been largely exploited, while textile factories already had made large investments in equipment to handle cotton, wool, and linen. Others argue that DuPont wanted to eliminate cannabis because its high natural cellulose content made it a viable alternative to the company's developing innovation: modern plastic. Still, others could argue that hemp could never truly compete with the high strength and elasticity of synthetics, such as nylon. Furthermore, hemp would have been an easy target due to its intoxicating effect, while no rational justification could have been made for outlawing cotton, wool, or linen.

During this period, Henry (Harry) Anslinger, then-Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, alleged that the drug could provoke criminal behavior in previously solid citizens. Anslinger, originally against a federal law, switched his position in response to pressure from Southern and Western states seeking to outlaw the substance in connection with immigrant populations. With the aid of Hearst and other media, the Bureau of Narcotics demonized the subject in pop culture. Anslinger was a prohibitionist and believed anti-marijuana laws would help encourage a revival of alcohol's prohibition. Anslinger also popularized the word marihuana for the plant, using a Mexican derived word (believed to be derived from an archaic Brazilian Portuguese term for inebriation, "Maria Joana") in order to associate the plant with increasing numbers of Mexican immigrants, creating a negative stereotype which persists to this day.

Anslinger was successful in outlawing machine-gun sales with a trick of law that made it impossible to complete a transaction without a stamp issued by the government. Even though the government had no intentions of issuing said stamps, the Supreme Court upheld the restriction on machine gun sales. (Today these stamps are routinely issued however to qualified buyers under the rules set forth in the National Firearms Act.) Congress then applied the same theory to majiuana. Following passage of The 1937 federal marijuana tax act, the mayor of New York City commissioned a study that determined all of Anslinger's claims to be false. Despite the testimony of the American Medical Associations director, Congress passed the bill to curb the percieved violent spread of the drug. In fact, the legal spread of amphetamines by prescription from doctors was at this time clearly a larger problem.

Anslinger's law was struck down by the Supreme Court in 1969. In a case brought by Timothy Leary, the Court held that the law's requirement that a would-be possessor of marijuana register with the local bureau of the IRS, thereby placing his name and address on a file available to local law enforcment, violated the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination, given the fact that at the time all 50 states had state laws on the books outlawing marijuana outright. In 1970, the Controlled Substances Act made possession of marijuana illegal again on a federal level, without the Fifth Amendment issues that scuttled the 1937 act, and without apparent concern for the issues which required the Eighteenth Amendment to effect the prohibition of alcohol. Several petitions for cannabis rescheduling in the United States have been filed, since the Act permits legalization of marijuana through the executive branch.

Just realized this was my POST # 420!!!!!!

 

[Young Pumpkin]

Ah now, no Ken Kesey??? No electric Kool-Aid??? Used to love Hunter, then I read the "Unauthorized Bio" and not any more. If I recall correctly he also beat his wife and pulled some other uncool stunts. Didn't he kill himself? Been a while since I read the Bio, yeah, just checked, definitely dead. Self inflicted gunshot wound. Poor Bastard. Real heads don't commit suicide. We are generally a pretty happy group most of the time. IMO

I'll write in Ken Kesey.