Medical marijuana actually has a great deal of support - and I was surprised to realize just how far that support has spread (i.e. it has gone beyond just California, my home state, and gone beyond the community of marijuana users and sympathizers and become accepted by people I once thought would autoreject anything and everything drug-positive.
I also realized something recently: the main lobby against medical pot, and ALL DRUG POLICY REFORM ESPECIALLY that which is related to marijuana, is made up of people connected to the pharmaceutical industry. Yes, folks! These guys REALLY get in a dither over the idea that there's a *relatively* safe and extraordinarily effective tonic for a whole spectrum of medical woes that LITERALLY "grows like a weed" and CANNOT be PATENTED. What's more, the liquor companies also seem to be huge supporters of SOS and DFAF, too. Golly, I couldn't imagine what THEIR reason would be...why don't they quit getting freaked out over the competition and instead look into doing some farming...
These people - at least the ones in charge of things, at the very top level - do not fight drug policy reform out of fear for "the health of our young people, our nation's most precious resource" (An actual quote from a prohibitionist web site: gee, that's nice, thinking of kids as "resources" always makes them feel so loved!) No, if that were the case, they'd be a little more concerned about things like air pollution getting so bad in urban areas that people literally have trouble breathing on some days...but you never hear a word from them about these toxic substances entering our bodies that we have NO CHOICE in the matter of imbibing. Nor do they seem concerned about the devastating cuts to educational and health services for youth - all just so war budgets can be maintained and increased, and the invading US forces in other nations can be kept supplied.
Those who aren't in the inner circles might really believe their own BS, since "drugs" are such an easy scapegoat. In their stilted, twisted mindsets, the word "drugs" represents a singular monstrous entity - much like "terrorism" - which one can do battle with and overcome. They believe the BS churned out by people whose livelihoods would be knocked asunder were drugs legalized or decriminalized.
A person will, after all, nearly always take up whatever crusade there is that aligns with their position in life, i.e. their careers. Indeed, just after the repeal of the Volstead Act, Harry Anslinger first thought to rile up the public with bombastic propaganda about the "demon weed". Of course he did! He was a Treasury cop, which in those days meant "Prohibition enforcer", and with the end of prohibition was to come the end of his usefulness. Therefore, he created a need for his particular talent; enforcing substance prohibition. Things have not changed a bit since the 1930s on this count.
Locate the blind spot in the culture--the place where the culture isn't looking, because it dare not--because if it were to look there, its previous values would dissolve.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1561769118/circlofmiamithem' target='_new'>Terence McKenna
