If it was found that an illegal drug could be used to cure both AIDS and

[Pushed To The Left]

cancer, what would happen in America?

[Liberal Veteran]

1. I'd become a lawbreaker today.....

Since I have AIDS.

[getmeouttahere]

4. And I'd be behind you 100%, liberal veteran...

that is a cause worth dying for

[Just Me]

5. .

:hug:

[Deja Q]

2. Anyone who thinks our system is benevolent is a fool.

There is no money in cures. Only treatments.

If there is a cure, they will hoard it or keep it grossly overpriced.

They are out for money first and foremost and our population is too high to survive what they believe is going to happen in a relatively short period of time. (peak oil)

[maveric]

3. The reports would be deemed false. The drug would remain illegal

only to be used to benefit the rich and "connected" types/neocons.

[DanCa]

6. Right now they are trying to pass laws against stem cell research

That if passed that would make it a crime to utter the words stem cell research. And if I went over seas for treatment I would be jailled upon my return. Oh what a wonderful world isn't it?

[LeftyMom]

7. We'd likely never know

The results would be hidden, if the matter was ever studied in the first place.

[samdogmom]

8. I chose the first option.

because that's how I'd hope it would happen. Sanity would prevail over fundamentalism.

Edit: Plus, AIDs is an equal opportunity disease.

[noamnety]

9. The poor would die

The rich would travel abroad and get cured.

[donco6]

10. Wait. Pot's illegal?

Oops.

:hippie:

[firefox]

11. Medpot is illegal when laughing grass itself should be legal

There is going to be a term that grows in popularity as the medical establishment squeezes the life earnings out of people and that term is "medical fascism." At this moment the term "medical fascism" produces only 551 results at Google- http://tinyurl.com/dr8ft

As long as the fascist control America we will not see legal pot even as Portugal, Spain, Berlin, Switzerland, Belgium, and Holland have given up the fight. The strategist cannot deny the that the greatest medicinal plant in history is going to break their blanket prohibition and we will see the battle switch to the pharmaceuticalization of cannabis.

Medical fascism is not going to let any simple plant that can do so much cut into their quarter of a trillion dollars a year on pill sales. The true answer to your poll would be e)the drug warriors will continue to build an even more impressive stonewall that will never be torn down. Eventually the rest of the world will laugh the gate open and science will prevail.

Of course by then we will be a third-world economy and the dollar will not be the world currency. The government is more interested in making you sick than well. Just read the ingredients on anything you eat and the size of the ass in front of you on the escalator.