Response to Anne Marie's Blog

While surfing my fellow LSC 100 classmates blogs, one pretty in pink blog caught my eye, the blog of Anne Marie Jahnke. Her last post had the name Beyonce in the title, so of course I was drawn to this, being that I listen to Beyonce’s music regularly. Not to my surprise, Anne Marie had blogged on how Beyonce is endorsed by L’Oreal, the expansive hair product brand. In her blog she discussed how she though Beyonce was an appropriate choice for L’Oreal to pick as an endorsement to their product, because she is a beautiful woman and highly regarded celebrity.

I agree that Beyonce is a beautiful woman, whom being the diva stuck in the spot light as she is, was probably a smart business choice for L’Oreal as far as advertisement advancement. But last time I checked Beyonce’s long luscious hair that she uses to advertise this shampoo with in the commercial’s isn’t even hers. Now as Anne Marie states, Beyonce is no hair stylist or specialist in hair coloring, but whoever does her hair should probably be the one in the commercials, because her weaves are too realistic. Or maybe its not the weaves, maybe it’s the weaves plus all the computerized touch-ups that L’Oreal adds to the commercial after they film it, that makes the sales rise. Not that there is anything wrong with weaves, but its hard for me to believe that Beyonce actually washes her hair with that shampoo, considering she is a multimillionaire, and middle class white America is probably the ones buying the product.

On one of Beyonce’s webpages, once again the product is pushed and represented by just putting Beyonce’s beautiful face next to it. But come on Beyonce, as a beautiful black woman, why aren’t you promoting a brands that will benefit the community you came from such as Crown Royal or Dark & Lovely? She already has enough money, why not worry less about the 4.7 million L’Oreal gives you and push to get black hair products on the market and more accessible for the black community who can relate to you, but often not the products she pushes such as L’Oreal.

And guess what L’Oreal, Beyonce is cheating on you, as she is also endorsed by American Express, Blue chip brands, Pepsi and an array of any other commercials you have seen her in. So yes maybe as Anne Marie said she is just another pretty faced celeb fit to catch the eye of the channel surfer.

-But I guess beyonce is just a hustla getting money off of whatever endorsement she can as she said, "Diva is a female version of a hustla..."

Legalize It, It's time to recognize it: Medicinal Pot

The discussion of medicinal marijuana has been on the radar in America for almost a decade now, since the first state California, in 1996, gained medicinal legalization through state statue. The discussion of marijuana in this country is displayed through pop culture, in songs such as Seal Paul’s “Legalize It,” and through stereotyped jokes made on shows such as “That 70’s Show” which my parent’s generation laughs hysterically to, displaying relation to this substance.
The substance is a drug which has an ongoing familiarity within our melting pot culture, because it is the most frequently used illegal drug in America. Not to mention our countries long existing relationship with the drug, as it was still legal in the 1800s and wasn’t strictly monitored until the War on Drugs era.

Medicinal marijuana, although not being at the tips of our fingers on a legal basis for leisure purposes as many American’s would appreciate, it should legalized for medicinal purposes in all 50 states. The reason for this is it would not only help subside the large demand for it by patients, but it would allow doctors to prescribe it more freely without the possibility of their license being suspended by the federal government whom opposes the legalization of medicinal marijuana.

Sure, it’s understandable that the federal government doesn’t want people walking around the streets passing blunts, but for cancer patients whom claim marijuana to help ease the pain that chemotherapy causes, it could help if their was more access to the drug from legal cannabis dispensaries. It could serve as an alternative way of healing, and it would help to control the illegal distribution in the streets, which we pay for the criminalization of through over $872,720 of tax money on. When we could be taxing the buyers of the product and gaining over $200 million in revenue per state.

If you want to know more about these facts and figures, you can check out the opinion of the California medical marijuana cannabis clubs that exist, and are pushing to keep their business alive, amongst the constant grief from the DEA. But there are also many sources which would argue against the legalization of medicinal marijuana, for example the DEA which classified it as a narcotic, that is lethal although it is not as addictive or is equally if not less damaging as something such as alcohol which is on the legal market.

To change the laws you can reach out to the cannabis clubs in the legal states and state legislature to see how the law was passed and under what circumstances and push to pass the same in you home state. Or reach out and participate in grassroots organizations whom are already pushing for the action of legalization such as this org. NORML!

& remember it will exist always, but we have the power to make it exist in a benefical way

(By the way check out the link in the title of this article, read on marijuana in the university!)