At the White House Correspondents Dinner, Jimmy Kimmel made a pro-pot plea, asking anybody in the audience who’d never smoked marijuana to raise their hand. Not very many hands went up. Still, it’s illegal, and all these people who have smoked at one time, including Obama, are keeping it illegal, and I can’t figure out why.
It’s like Bokononism in the Kurt Vonnegut novel Cat’s Cradle. It’s a totally forbidden religion, yet everybody on the island is a secret practitioner.
Politically, of course, Obama doesn’t feel compelled to do anything. He’s going to get the stoner vote, any way. Who are we going to vote for? Ron Paul?
But why? Big Pharma? Monsanto? Weyerhauser? Dow? Who wields so much power that virtually all American politicians, and the press, totally accept that it should be illegal, that even discussing it just means you’re a crazy stoner and who are you going to vote for, anyway?
It’s that total unanimity, without any backing logic whatsoever, without any possibility of serious debate, that disturbs me.
And that’s how marijuana is like Ron Paul. Because the press just decided from Day 1 that he was a joke candidate, and so he is. But it’s not because of anything he said.
(wwfu)
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Seriously, this is an important issue: one of many Ron Paul is spot on about and Obama is simply wrong (not to mention Romney). When people vote their values, wallets and self-interest – rather than just following the crowd, we actually have a democracy in the service of all.
I blame the “boomers.” They’re a generation of pussies that had everything handed to them and fully believe that they a) deserve everything they want and b) theirs is the only right thought on the matter. When the boomers die off, the kids of the late 70’s and later can, hopefully, cut the BS and make more sensible laws regarding weed. Half or more of us got baked throughout much of high school and know from experience that weed isn’t the “dangerous” drug that authorities and boomers with a sphincter too tight make it out to be. Just die already, boomers.
hell, A, us boomers practically invented smoking marijuana.
You mentioned some big company interests that are trying to keep pot illegal. In the beginning I am told the cotton lobby was big because they did not want competition from hemp. Now I think the Police and jail guard unions plus the lawyers and judges are working hard to keep this stream of income from drying up.