The So-Called War on Drugs (Cannabis)

WHAT A CROCK FULL OF ILLEGAL CRAP!

What Richard Nixon - who was more of a crook than most of us - called the War on Drugs (Cannabis) is really a war on all citizens of the U.S., regardless of whether someone "uses" drugs recreationally or not. Drug use is a victimless act. Prohibition of ingestion of any substance can be viewed as a violation of personal and civil liberties. But the continuing campaign to bring us all in line is much, much more than that. And now with our (your) new President, the Messiah, the Chosen One, the Anti-Christ Muslim, the Giver Away of Our Money, He Who Would Disarm America, who nationalizes banks and insurance companies, and auto makers, bringing us all in line is more of a reality. An ugly one. More than enough grist for another posting on his behavior, but on with the current show.

The most succinct statement I have found regarding the so-called War on Drugs (Cannabis) is this: Richard Lawrence Miller's Drug Warriors and Their Prey draws detailed comparisons of the War on Drugs (Cannabis) in the United States today with events in 1930s Germany that led to Hitler's Third Reich and the attempted destruction of the Jewish people. Miller writes that "authoritarians are manufacturing and manipulating public fears about drug use in order to create a police state where a much broader agenda of social control can be implemented, using government power to determine what movies we may watch, determine who we may love and how we may love them, determine whether we may or must pray to a deity. I believe the war on drug users masks a war on democracy."

And many people have bought into the propaganda, the outright lies spewed forth by our own government. The War on Drugs (Cannabis) has imprisoned a generation who did nothing morally wrong. It's made criminals of millions. It has squandered national treasure, made international enemies, prostituted governments, and perverted law enforcement. Many, many more voices are now saying louder and louder and more often that it's past the time to stop the Marijuana madness that has been pushed by our employees in Washington, D.C.

The gubment claims that Marijuana has no medicinal value. BULLSHIT. IT DOES HAVE.

As medical Marijuana clinics continue to open and people find pain and nausea relief.

The gubment claims that Marijuana leads to Reefer Madness. BULLSHIT. IT DOES NOT.

Otherwise millions of us would try to rob you of your cupcakes and chocolate milk.

The gubment claims that Marijuana is a gateway drug. BULLSHIT. IT IS NOT.

Unless it's also claimed that drinking water is a gateway to alcoholism.

Let's Just Suppose You Have Very Bad Neighbors...

Just roll with this for a moment.

You try to mind your own business, rear your children properly, and just generally be a good and responsible neighbor. Your modest home "estate" is well kept and maintained in a presentable condition, surrounded by a privacy fence since good fences make good neighbors. It's everything you and your family have.

But you happen to live in an area with extreme, dangerous, and very bad neighbors like these two. You cannot just abandon everything you have worked hard for and move away. It's everything you have.

Every so often these very bad neighbors apparently get a burr up their asses and start lobbing grenades over the fence. Or they pretend to be making nice, come over to visit, then explode themselves at your dinner table killing members of your large family. Or equally terrifying, they fire rockets over the fence at your estate.

And when you have had all of this you can stand you retaliate in kind. In fact, you happen to have amassed a better arsenal than they have and you vigorously and decidedly defend your home and family. You can no longer simply turn the other cheek and have it smacked, as well.

Oh, the hew and cry from the very bad neighbors, the same neighbors who started all this, who now claim they are the ones being persecuted for some unknown reason. In my view this is exactly what is happening with Israel and their very bad neighbors next door in the Gaza Strip, Hamas.