Canada set to sell medical marijuana in world first

[Xenophobe3691]

I wouldn't be surprised at all--especially if a number of them turned out to be the same dipshits in Washington today beating their chests about how many years "junkies" ought to go to jail for one puff of giggle grass.

The Question is, then, where does all this public anti-drug feeling come from? Is it real, or is it just a VERY outspoken minority?

[kojikun]

The Question is, then, where does all this public anti-drug feeling come from? Is it real, or is it just a VERY outspoken minority?

It's real, but it's a fake fear based on propoganda. A lot of it started with
the reefermadness-type campaigns that struck false-fear into people (I
don't see Amsterdamers killing everyone or themselves). Then that false
fear spawned more anti-drug fear-based programs, etc. DARE as well. You
get the idea. It's all lies and bullshit, not real information.

[RedImperator]

I wouldn't be surprised at all--especially if a number of them turned out to be the same dipshits in Washington today beating their chests about how many years "junkies" ought to go to jail for one puff of giggle grass.

The Question is, then, where does all this public anti-drug feeling come from? Is it real, or is it just a VERY outspoken minority?

It's a real feeling. Try saying "I'm in favor of legalizing marijuana" in a group of people who aren't already familiar with your politics. You get open mouth stares, like you just said you're in favor of eating babies. It's so ingrained into people that drugs are this horrible evil that it never even occurs to them that they should legalize it--hell, I know people who SMOKE marijuana and say it shouldn't be legalized. It's frankly one of the most successful propaganda programs in history, and now it's running on sheer inertia. People are against marijuana legalization because marijuana is illegal, the government is against it because the government has big fat government agencies devoted to fighting the drug war, the law enforcement community is against legalization because they've spent so long fighting it they can't imagine any other way (at least the DAs can't--I don't know what the cops think), and the Christians are against legalization because, well, God hates it when people have fun.

On the bright side, I've found that if you make your arguments carefully, you can change people's minds. That's the advantage to being against a status quo that's so deeply rooted nobody even thinks about it anymore--they haven't thought about it enough to build predjudices and the walls of ignorance that come with them (the pro-choice side of the abortion fight made its biggest gains, in terms of the number of people whose minds they changed, prior to Roe v. Wade). It also helps that so many people have smoked marijuana and realized at the very least that this demon weed horseshit is just that: horseshit.