that is some brutal logic.. i agree with most of it.. and we are not talking about $20 cold remedies - i know firsthand that the end of life treatments take people for all they are worth - $1000 procedures on top of $1000 prescriptions to hang on to our disease ridden bodies for a few more weeks..
i still hold on to the hope that more and more people are becoming informed about these exact points - norml has found that a vast majority of older citizens want legalization.. once you are informed on the facts of the situation there is little ground to stand on saying that pot is harmful and not beneficial to people.. by uninformed standards we can say that all moderately harmful substances should be controlled so that us idiots won't ruin our lives somehow just because someone isn't threatening to beat us with a steel pipe.. our current drug czar michele leonhart believes that alcohol should be illegal!! she was GW Bush's choice!! remember that woman in the midwest running for office and saying that masturbation is evil? i think the levels of logic are about that low if we cannot get consensus within 5 - 10 years about putting pot on a state by state legality..
last friday the DEA issued this in response to a long awaited plea to have pot reclassified away from schedule 1 -
"(1)
Marijuana has a high potential for abuse. The DHHS evaluation and the additional data gathered by DEA show that marijuana has a high potential for abuse. (2)
Marijuana has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States. According to established case law, marijuana has no ‘‘currently accepted medical use’’ because: The drug’s chemistry is not known and reproducible; there are no adequate safety studies; there are no adequate and well-controlled studies proving efficacy; the drug is not accepted by qualified experts; and the scientific evidence is not widely available.
(3)
Marijuana lacks accepted safety for use under medical supervision. At present, there are no U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved marijuana products, nor is marijuana under a New Drug Application (NDA) evaluation at the FDA for any indication. Marijuana does not have a currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States or a currently accepted medical use with severe restrictions.
At this time, the known risks of marijuana use have not been shown to be outweighed by specific benefits in well-controlled clinical trials that scientifically evaluate safety and efficacy."
is that what you want our top officials saying to your children? to anyone? it is just plain wrong and the facts are going to come out.. schedule I. places pot in the top category along with heroin and PCP - on down in scedule II. we have less harmful things such as meth, coke and opium... i guess that we had the girls from south park make the list for us..
so, i disagree that we will not see legalization in our lifetimes.. it is just a matter of getting the proper information understood by the individuals involved..
