1/07/2012

How I Feel

Clearly I am for the legalisation of marijuana. The prohibition and human rights seem to run along two parallels, never crossing eachother's paths. It has invited a new excuse for violence, and blurred the consequences of all things marijuana related.


Decision
Google Images: Inconsistency;
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"How could we be sending Mark Emery to prison for life in the United States, if even our own police aren't finding it worth their while to bust people smoking [marijuana] right in front of them?" (The Union: The Business Behind Getting High)


This quote illustrates my feelings exactly. If one is to create a prohibition, it must clearly be forbidden. This prohibition has governed great inconsistency, resulting in quite justified confusion. There is also the situation in which privately owned prisons profit off prisoners, increasing the demand for prisoners, which, in turn, makes marijuana consumers, dealers, and producers easy targets. Is this not an example of corruption? I cannot believe the private prison industry is legal.

Google Images: Poison
I am also bothered because of the dedication being put forward to promote an entirely natural medication, proven to have therapeutic properties in many situations, as negative. As if choking back synthetic substitutes or man-made medications is the healthy alternative. Every year prescription medicines kill more than 100 000 people yet they are hesitant to sell marijuana because of the side effects (a high). (The Union) Modern medicine is highly experimental, dangerous, toxic, and kills. It is fantastic that certain areas such as Canada and California have legalised the use of medical marijuana for patients with the appropriate illness', but why, if cannabis is as damaging as claimed, is it only legally securable to the ill population of these communities? And if not, why is there a perception that healthy people would be affected differently by the drug in question?


 MARIJUANA PROHIBITION = EXPLOITING HUMAN WEAKNESS


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  2. Awesome points. I never actually thought about the fact that if its prohibited, why do so many people get away with it?
    your blog is very interesting to read.
    -Brynn

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