Support for legalizing marijuana grows rapidly around U.S. - Approval for medical use expands alongside criticism of prohibition
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The same day they rejected a gay marriage ballot measure, residents of Maine voted overwhelmingly to allow the sale of medical marijuana over the counter at state-licensed dispensaries. Later in the month, the American Medical Association reversed a longtime position and urged the federal government to remove marijuana from Schedule One of the Controlled Substances Act, which equates it with heroin.
A few days later, advocates for easing marijuana laws left their biannual strategy conference with plans to press ahead on all fronts -- state law, ballot measures, and court -- in a movement that for the first time in decades appeared to be gaining ground.
"This issue is breaking out in a remarkably rapid way now," said Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance. "Public opinion is changing very, very rapidly." This "report" from the Washington Post is more thinly diguised psychological conditioning to influence, ie manipulate, public consciousness. Our overlords and their media whores have had decades of practice doing this, and they're masters at it.
What they do is insinuate a priori garbage as actual fact to prod you to believe their made up assumptions. Here's an example - we've all heard, ad nauseum, that Ahmadinejad wants to "wipe Israel off the map", a deliberate mistranslation to demonize Iran and reiterate Israel's permanent state of victimhood status. It doesn't matter how many times it's been pointed out that that's not what Iran's president said, MSM just repeats it again and again as if it was established fact.
In the above screed they want you to believe that there's a sea change in how people view the psychotropic aspects of cannabis. Total bullshit. You and I and just about everybody else have always known marijuana laws have been unjust fascist crap and should never have been instituted in the first place. They're trying to convince the unwary that all of a sudden there's a huge shift in opinion about people getting high and that sometime soon, in a little while, just about there, a majority of useless eaters will probably at some point favor legalization. Whoa.
Wanna know what's really going on?
The drug war scam has been very, very lucrative to the scumbags. After all, pretending to pass "laws" protecting the population from drugs and then making sure you have a lock on smuggling those drugs around makes it certain that drug prices stay high for you. You can guarantee yourself
huge profits. Posturing as defenders of public morality and health puts a lot of tax money in your pocket while you systematically eliminate your competition. Filling the jails with drug busts gives you a great resume as a staunch defender of justice. Prison populations are great union busting sources of cheap, forced labor. Your police state fantasies come true as you fuck the constitution in the throat.
But there's a problem now. The peasants are restless. Your sweet ride has to change a little because the greatest depression is making people nervous and worried even though Fox is working double overtime to convince them what they're going through is just a minor bump in the road. So what do you do? You legalize some innocuous vegetable material that should never have been made illegal in the first place, stuff that everybody knows is harmless, and pretend that it's a giant leap for mankind.
With this propaganda they want us to think there's this huge shift in public perception and there isn't one. Support for complete legalization has always been overwhelming. This is a tactical policy change by our would be controllers to do certain things. For one, it's impossible anymore to maintain the illusion that pot is harmful. For another, they've always known that getting high will pacify, and they know the mood in this country, especially after eight years of Bush mob hell on earth and the largest financial theft in human history, is getting extremely volitile. Our overlords would like nothing better than to see the rabble crashing on the sofa in front of the tube rather than organizing or out on the streets raising cain.
They've apparently decided that now it's more important to let the great unwashed get high than to keep using prohibition as a money making machine and a stepping stone to fascism.
After all, they've already got their police state and are going to fill the jails with political prisoners instead of stoners, so now they want to tax the fuck out of legalized weed, dude.
