Medical Marijuana Apartheid: Different Rules Apply for Rich and Poor Pot Smokers

[babsbunny]

Medical Marijuana Apartheid: Different Rules Apply for Rich and Poor Pot Smokers

A California hipster can hit the vaporizer without fear of harassment, but a lower-class person smoking a blunt may not be so lucky.

http://www.alternet.org/rights/144530/medical_marijuana_apartheid%3A_different_rules_apply_for_rich_and_poor_pot_smokers

By Joshua Holland, AlterNet. Posted December 13, 2009.

About 80 percent of Americans approve of medical marijuana laws, but some conservatives are incensed that state legislatures keep passing them. In a recent column, George F. Will, the Washington Post's bow-tied curmudgeon, decried the reefer madness he sees taking over California, sweeping across Colorado and perhaps even coming to a normal state near you.

The pundit seemed especially incensed that states like Colorado and California had effectively legalized the drug through a "back-door" process, writing that medical dispensaries "serve the fiction that most transactions in the store -- which is what it really is -- involve medicine." He lamented that "fifty-six percent of Californians support legalization," and concluded: "They essentially have this."

[mdmc]

1. everything is legal for the rich

[babsbunny]

2. Oh My God

You are right! And the prisons are making money, so you gotta keep them filled!

[Ikonoklast]

3. I often wonder why on Earth George F. Will is relevant to, well, anything.

I guess he has a problem with Democracy in action, then.

He needs to take it up with Madison, Jefferson and all those other guys for writing that Constitution thingy.

"Rights Reserved To The States" or some such other 'amendment' rubbish.