Drug-fueled madness! | Salon
Our nation’s narcotics policy, that is. But there’s good news as Hillary Clinton and Sen. Jim Webb take baby steps toward sanity.
[…] Though President Barack Obama childishly laughed at a question about legalization during his recent town hall meeting, his government implicitly admits that marijuana is safer than light beer. Indeed, as federal agencies acknowledge alcohol’s key role in deadly illnesses and domestic violence, their latest anti-pot fear mongering is an ad campaign insisting — I kid you not — that marijuana is dangerous because it makes people zone out on their couches and diminishes video-gaming skills.
(This is your government on drugs: Cirrhosis and angry tank-topped lushes beating their wives are more acceptable risks than stoners sitting in their basements ineptly playing “Halo.” … Any questions?) […]
The truth? Prohibition fails. Always. It creates a violent black market for that which is prohibited. Telling someone they can’t have something, no matter what, simply makes that thing more desirable.
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