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Bozvotros's JournalLegal pot puts literally billions of dollars of pharmaceutical revenue at risk
I am sure that further studies will prove many more uses and benefits of drugs derived from marijuana. Even straight off the plant marijuana could replace many high priced medications for a wide variety of conditions and do so with fewer negative side effects and risks. This is indisputable. The facts don't matter. Nor does it matter that most Americans favor decriminalization or legalization. What matters is how much money you can throw at an election to direct the outcome. Pharmaceuticals are flush with cash. Do you think Obama or even the Democratic "leadership" (and I use that term loosely) will risk the wrath of Big Pharma before a major election? No. That isn't going to happen.
More of the war on women
This show, the Housewives of Whereever, Bridezilla, Mob Wives, the insipidly shallow Kardashians Klan, Bad Girl Club etc etc are all sending the message that it is OK, normal, even attractive for women to be vain, vindictive, selfish, hateful and narcissistic. Jerry Springer started this trend by trapping ignorant, violent and often physically hideous people on a public stage and poking them with sharp rhetorical sticks until they cracked and attacked someone. He was however an equal opportunity huckster who brought the carnival spotlight on both sick men and sick women. Now the trend is to just focus on attractive women who are willing to strut their psychopathy. The men in their lives are basically there to give the women someone to hurt and the audience someone to pity or scorn. This stuff is mainstream femdom pornography. But it sure as hell is popular these days.
War is hell
What do you suppose you would feel if someone dear to you had their legs blown off, the features seared off their face, or their spinal cord severed and you heard their screams of agony? What would you want to do to people who ran around burying high explosives in a thousand places in the hopes of maiming or killing more people in your family? Soldiers in combat are often closer to their buddies than anyone else in their life before or after. I work with Vietnam vets who 50 years later still hear in their dreams the gurgling moans of dying friends. If you think you wouldn't or couldn''t act the way these men did, you are deluded.
Our government trains men to be brute killers, puts them into hopeless wars where they are despised by civilians, where combatants are indistinguishable from everyone else and then gives them rules of engagement that could get everyone in their company killed. That kind of "warfare" which the US has specialized in, has led to millions of dead, maimed and crazed victims including hundreds of thousands of US troops whose sacrifice and suffering was only for someone else's profit or some doomed geopolitical strategy. You think those soldiers can't figure it out or aren't feeling pissed on themselves?
http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/owen1.html
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