Friday, April 11, 2014

Weekend Embryonic Song


Here in Maryland, the State legislature recently passed a bill decriminalizing possession of marijuana for amounts under 10 grams (about a third of an ounce).  You get escalating fines, but no criminal record.  It's clearly a first step (given the many socially conservative Dems in the legislature, it was a small miracle anything was passed).  Democratic Gov. Martin O'Malley has said he will sign the bill into law.

Jefferson Airplane was a San Francisco based group that would appreciate both the intent of the law as well as its embryonic nature (alright alright, enough with the tortured segue).  Here they are with guitarist (and D.C. native) Jorma Kaukonen's "Embryonic Journey" from their masterpiece pre- Summer of Love 1967 album "Surrealistic Pillow":