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Marijuana – Myths and Facts

Dee — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 03:49:50 +0000

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.

Medical Marijuana Policy May Change Under Obama

Dee — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:14:20 +0000

WASHINGTON — The White House won’t say it explicitly. Neither will the Drug Enforcement Administration. Yet there is a whiff in the air that U.S. policy is about to change when it comes to medical marijuana.

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Michele Leonhart, Do the Right Thing!

Dee — Wed, 23 May 2007 21:04:21 +0000

Today there was some good news in the fight to get the DEA to lift a 40-year ban on allowing the FDA to conduct research on marijuana for medical purposes.

But don’t get too excited, because whether or not this goes forward now is up to just ONE person…

Judge Submits Official Recommendation to DEA Urging End to 40-Year Barrier to FDA-Approved Medical Marijuana Research
WASHINGTON D.C. – A U.S. Department of Justice-appointed judge submitted her final recommendation to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) on May 15, calling on the agency to end a forty-year government monopoly on the supply of research-grade marijuana available for Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved studies. With this monopoly broken, new studies could lead to medical marijuana’s availability in pharmacies as a legal, prescription drug. DEA Deputy Administrator Michele Leonhart must now accept the judge’s recommendation in order for the ruling to take effect, though she has no deadline for doing so and may choose to reject the recommendation.

You can read the full article here.

It’s absolutely insane. Every other drug you can name, e.g. heroin, ecstasy, LSD, etc. etc. etc. is approved by the DEA for research purposes. But the LEAST harmful drug of them all (including alcohol), marijuana, is considered too evil and dangerous to even be allowed to be studied.

If that isn’t ‘politics’, my friend, then I don’t know what in the hell is. I’d love to know how Michele voted in the last presidential election…

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