As anyone who actually smokes pot can tell you, there’s a lot of misinformation out there about marijuana. But as more and more people get educated about its benefits as a medical treatment, the general public is slooowly starting to be more open to looking at pot in a rational way.

I wish I had a ton of money; I’d pay for an intense national advertising campaign, on TV, radio, billboards, you name it. It would just be about comparing pot to alcohol, and showing all the statistics about how each one effects the human body, and also the ’social costs’ of each one. Each of their effects on the crime rate, health care costs, vehicular homicide, the teen death rate, tax dollars spent, etc. That’s all. Just the facts. Over, and over, and over… the same way that the B.S. propaganda about marijuana is shoved down the public’s throat over, and over and over…

Personally, I think there’s some evidence that the general public is getting tired of the debate about pot and they don’t really care as much as they used to about whether or not it’s legal or illegal. Look at the whole Michael Phelps fiasco. Except for Kellogg’s none of Phelps’ other sponsors fired him, because it’s just getting to be not that big a deal anymore. Except for Kellogg’s, and maybe Fox News, nobody really seemed to give a damn that the guy had a few bong hits. Which is good.

But, I’m not stupid. I know it’s a long stretch between public opinion slowly changing and actual policy change in Washington. Politicians, whether they’re Democrats or Republicans, are WAY too conservative to be early adopters in any area. But organizations like the Drug Policy Alliance Network are working on changing the government’s drug policies, by fighting the status quo with facts – not propaganda.

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