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The point is the willingness of some to swallow government propaganda and the creation of false enemies. Thus, the hated enemy of yesterday is now the ally of today and vice versa based on nothing but governmental pronouncements. Pot was never illegal until a racist propaganda campaign was ginned up against it in the 30s. "Eastasia is the enemy and always has been the enemy." Why? Why did a plant never shown to do ANY social harm become the enemy? Because the feds say so and the gullible lap it up.

The war on reefer is equally dubious since the evidence of its lack of horrible effects is overwhelming. Particularly in comparision to booze. Yet, the mere governmental announcement that it is equivalent to heroin and cocaine brings out the amen chorus ready for war. MEGoodies little tale of the guy who hanged himself because of pot is swamped by the tales of self destruction because of booze as I can verify from my own family. In fact, I have never heard of anyone destroying himself because of pot useage alone yet know of dozens who have done so with booze.

The war on reefer is equally dubious since the evidence of its lack of horrible effects is overwhelming.

Amen to that! I think everyone agrees the ideal situation would be for public policy to be consistent with both available research and societal attitudes. The government's take on how to accomplish this seems to be to take the current legal status of marijuana as the baseline, and try and force societal attitudes and the conclusions of researchers into line with that, rather than the other way around.

"In fact, I have never heard of anyone destroying himself because of pot useage alone yet know of dozens who have done so with booze."

I guess you are conveniently ignoring my earlier post about my friend that drove D.U.I., and drove his van into a telephone pole. Now you know of two cases of pot causing someone's death, so you can't say that you don't know of any cases. I'm sure if the truth were known some of those dozens of cases that you acknowledge were the result of a combination of pot and booze.

Ultimately, it comes down to this one fact. In a majority of individuals Marijuana is a gateway drug. Marijuana ultimately leads to harder drugs. This is how most people end up destroying theri lives with drugs, and the root cause of it is Marijuana. To say otherwise is to deny the truth.