Pot is the new gay

[RainDog]

...according to an GBLT activist and as reported by Nathan Edelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance.

here's a link to his segment with Bill Maher

http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/07/drug-policy-alliance-nathan-nadelmann-maher-pot-new-gay-legalization/

[meow mix]

1. or worse.. being rounded up in mass for prisons. not allowed to work.

familys and people completly destroyed. and people fucking yawn over it.

[ananda]

2. Well, vested interests certainly seem to have ...

... a very strong desire to keep pot illegal, even though it's
beneficial to health and helps with pain issues.

[RainDog]

3. Nadelmann calls for politicians to "break the taboo"

and say IN PUBLIC what THEY SAY IN PRIVATE.

...which is that they think cannabis should be legal.

you have to ask - who do these people work for if they KNOW our drug policy is a failure and yet refuse to act upon this knowledge.

how many people have to suffer because pols lack the courage to do the right thing?

[Strelnikov_]

4. Vested interests being the alcohol/tobacco industries

If weed was legalized, the majority of consumption would be produced by small producers and home gardeners.

No possibility for concentrated wealth and power in that.

Like Katt says, "it's just a plant, it just grows like that". Who is going to pay 2000% markup for something many could grow in their back yard.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWhUqo9Aivs

[RainDog]

5. it's not just recreational use that threatens certain businesses

since a plant cannot be copyrighted, pharmas don't want something that can compete with their products that also has fewer side effects and, apparently, more overall health benefits.

[iemitsu]

8. yep strelnikov, you are spot on.

the same reason we don't promote renewable energy consumption, it would decentralize the production of energy and reduce corporate profits.

[RainDog]

9. our system is not working anymore

and, just like in the soviet union and the satellites, people are going to say "enough!" to the class that pretends they are doing something for our own good when, in fact, they are hurting us and our children's futures.

[Bluenorthwest]

6. Many of the roots of the Medical Marijuana movement lie in

the GLBT community, back in the day when so many were so sick and big Insurance was joining Reagan in Nero's fiddling contest.

[RainDog]

7. yes.

when AIDS was ravaging communities in San Fran, compassionate caregivers were baking brownies and taking them to patients. I saw a documentary recently in which a doctor talked about one woman who did just that and was arrested.

Reagan was too busy funding right wingers in South and Central America - like the ones who raped and murdered nuns and buried them in shallow graves... he knew which side of humanity he was on.

it wasn't on the side of compassion and care.