01-16-2009, 04:48 AM
Yes indeed, Menehune re. "age". Well said!
Sure, cannabis is always a popular topic (see endocannabinoids), but the effects of cannabis prohibition are so corrosive to our democracy, country and our communities (Puna included), that it can never be overblown as a topic while criminal laws continue.
800,000 arrests last year alone and over twenty million to date, plus the corruption, corrosion and decay caused by the effects of narco dollars and Prohibition on our government, politicians, constitution, economy, culture, health and health care, society and political and economic institutions are enormous, devastating and largely (thanks to the news media, invisible to the public).
Think what's happening in Mexico can't happen here? Guess again.
Like many critical issues, "If only the American people knew".
btw, I've tried to explain to pharmacists here and in Hilo why thugs with guns on our streets and "drug lords" are less appropriate than doctors and pharmacists to be controllers of currently illegal drugs. Some understood immediately and some just couldn't seem to get it.
How can a pharmacist not understand something so simple, so obvious?
Amazing, really.
Doctors, in contrast, seems to understand immediately, in my experience.
So, folks continue to talk about pot and while pot is a pleasant topic, the real issue is cannabis and drug prohibition and the continuing efforts to end the reign of Prohibition.
Have you folks seen the wonderful editorial by Mark Morford in the San Francisco Chronicle entitled, "The hippies were right all along -- we knew that"?
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/02/DDG1UPIHBB1.DTL>
Sure, cannabis is always a popular topic (see endocannabinoids), but the effects of cannabis prohibition are so corrosive to our democracy, country and our communities (Puna included), that it can never be overblown as a topic while criminal laws continue.
800,000 arrests last year alone and over twenty million to date, plus the corruption, corrosion and decay caused by the effects of narco dollars and Prohibition on our government, politicians, constitution, economy, culture, health and health care, society and political and economic institutions are enormous, devastating and largely (thanks to the news media, invisible to the public).
Think what's happening in Mexico can't happen here? Guess again.
Like many critical issues, "If only the American people knew".
btw, I've tried to explain to pharmacists here and in Hilo why thugs with guns on our streets and "drug lords" are less appropriate than doctors and pharmacists to be controllers of currently illegal drugs. Some understood immediately and some just couldn't seem to get it.
How can a pharmacist not understand something so simple, so obvious?
Amazing, really.
Doctors, in contrast, seems to understand immediately, in my experience.
So, folks continue to talk about pot and while pot is a pleasant topic, the real issue is cannabis and drug prohibition and the continuing efforts to end the reign of Prohibition.
Have you folks seen the wonderful editorial by Mark Morford in the San Francisco Chronicle entitled, "The hippies were right all along -- we knew that"?
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/02/DDG1UPIHBB1.DTL>
Lee Eisenstein
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"Be kinder than necessary, as everyone you meet is engaged in some kind of strudel."
http://members.cruzio.com/~lionel/event
"Be kinder than necessary, as everyone you meet is engaged in some kind of strudel."