To: Cultural Jihad
Yes, I favor that and I don't dissemble in the slightest. No one is deceived that the medical marijuana movement is really a cover for full legalization. I certainly don't pretend otherwise nor am I part of the NORML crowd in that sense. However, what medical marijuana does accomplish is to highlight the irrationality of drug laws in a way that simple legalization advocacy does not do as easily. Medical marijuana makes people sit up and listen who would otherwise be too indifferent or too impatient to consider the facts about Prohibition.
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09/15/2002 10:05:36 AM PDT by
AntiGuv
To: AntiGuv
No one is deceived that the medical marijuana movement is really a cover for full legalization. ... Medical marijuana makes people sit up and listen who would otherwise be too indifferent or too impatient to consider the facts about Prohibition. You contradicted yourself. If using the term 'medicine' makes people sit up and take notice when in fact it has carcinogenic properties and those who tout it couldn't care less about drug addicts dying, then it is a most pernicious dissembling. Young people hear the Marxists and Libertarians touting so-called 'medical marijuana' and think to themselves: "Well, gee. If it's okay for sick people to use it, therefore it must be really okay and harmless for well people, too!"
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