Now This is Country Living: Homegrown Tobacco
The Times profiles one Audrey Silk of Marine Park, a retired cop who grows her own tobacco at home and is “the founder of New York City Clash (Citizens Lobbying Against Smoker Harassment), a smokers’ rights group.” Although growing your own tobacco for personal consumption is legal, Silk “said that she worried that antismoking advocates…

The Times profiles one Audrey Silk of Marine Park, a retired cop who grows her own tobacco at home and is “the founder of New York City Clash (Citizens Lobbying Against Smoker Harassment), a smokers’ rights group.” Although growing your own tobacco for personal consumption is legal, Silk “said that she worried that antismoking advocates and the Bloomberg administration, which pushed to ban smoking in restaurants and bars, would make homegrown tobacco their next target. ‘We fear that the antismokers are so hysterical that if they start finding that people are doing this, they would craft a law to make it illegal,’ Ms. Silk said. ‘I’m waiting for the black helicopters to start flying over my yard.'” Meanwhile, the owner of the Mississippi-based company that provides Silk with seeds “was not surprised to learn that the Golden Seal tobacco had done well in the Brooklyn sunshine” because of the plant’s resiliency.
Now in Brooklyn, Homegrown Tobacco: Local, Rebellious and Tax Free [NY Times]
Photo by Mickki.
“an no one is suggesting to take away their benefits, we are just suggesting THEY CONTINUE TO WORK FOR THEM AND CONTRIBUTE SOMETHING TO SOCIETY other than home grown tobacco.â€
But even if this woman held down a desk for a few hours a day, it wouldn’t change the fact that she’s still receiving the same amount in benefits. Randolph, you haven’t solved the problem by making yourself feel as if she’s earned it.
“reasonable and mature conversation
this is bstoner, right?”
Oh, great, so you are going with the argument of “everybody else is doing it!” Wonderful.
reasonable and mature conversation
this is bstoner, right?
bxgirl, if a cop gets shot and paralysed and can’t work then of course that person should be taken care of for life. that is not the case here (unless there is something i don’t know).
people should not have the right to a free pass in life because of what could or might have happened. again, becoming a cop or a fireman is an assumed risk not a fucking hall pass on life.
“snappy i don’t think it is hate”
If it walks like a duck…
“because you are too much of a pu55y”
I won’t even dignify that with a full response. Get back to me when you are capable of a reasonable and mature conversation.
snappy i don’t think it is hate, i think it is people gaming the system and it isn’t fair. I for one could not live with myself retiring young and just collecting a check from everyone else’s hard work until i die.
these things are indicative of a broken system and we have to fix it. dismissing it as hate or refusing to engage because you are too much of a pu55y doesn’t help either.
do you know any cops, randolph? Because they do take bullets. They just buried another police officer in Poughkeepsie this weekend. Not saying you aren’t right about this particular retired cop, who seems more like a dead beat, but lets not insult every cop because you’re angry at this one.
and anyway didn’t you say adios already? why are you still here?
I seriously don’t get all the damned hate. My God, you people are the most bitter folks I’ve ever come across.