(Replies to various misinformed arguments against it...):
1. "But the CHILDREN!!"
-Driving, Booze, Porn, Caffeine, Cigs, Gambling (Lottos, Casinos, Bingo, Poker, etc...): All Legal & inappropriate for kids, who are educated about the inherent risks (ie. cost, addiction, health).
2. "Addictions!!"
-Legalisation creates the ability to acquire help w/out fear of legal ramifications. 3-8% of those who try drugs (and/or ANY of the aforementioned LEGAL activities, like Gambling, etc... **excepting Cigs, which contain additives to make their addictiveness almost a shoe-in) are pre-dispositioned towards addiction and will continue using. Help shouldn't be unavailable or stigmatized just because an item was made illegal based upon the crooked Gov't ideals of the Hearst Generation.
3. "It's illegal for a reason!"
-Prohibition/The War On Drugs created a taboo & (therefore) a black market. It's filled prisons with otherwise law-abiding humans. It's perpetuated racism (profiling used to imprison a disproportionate number of young black men, Even though Anonymous self-reporting data places drug usage as essentially even across races/ethnicities/incomes). It's kept cartels, with their penchant for beheading Good L.E.O.s, living 'High On The Hog', paying off Gov't shills, Lobbyists, & Dirty/Threatened Cops in order to KEEP drugs illegal, to KEEP spreading misinformation, to keep tricking people like You that it's ANYONE'S business if someone wants to "hit the pipe" the way one would "crack a beer".
4. "Legalised products of today at least TRY to prevent people from using it now that the companies know the dangers!"
Are you aware that Phillip Morris (aka Tobacco) prevented the release of the CANCER-SMOKING connection for YEARS after it was known? They denied it with LOTS of money in exactly the same way that the Oil Companies pay big bucks to create climate change denial.
Are you aware that they (P.M.) Fund U.S. Election Campaigns in exchange for leniency on creating new consumers, as their current ones need to be replaced rapidly due to their becoming ill so frequently? That they've spread horrid misinformation regarding E-Cigs (the safest alternative to cigarettes besides quitting - a near impossibility for many)? That their "Don't Smoke" commercials are PURPOSELY created to be SO incredibly lame that 35% of the HUGE groups of kids surveyed after watching the commercials reported that they'd be MORE likely to smoke?
And yet, we see people who are filled with self-righteous anger, with spoon-fed media lies, opposing Marijuana as if it's the devil. As if it HASN'T been found to help so many people medically. As if it DOESN'T create a lovely happy feeling for people who use it recreationally. As if it's ACTUALLY a "gateway" (which it isn't, as the whole gateway drug theory was debunked ages ago, and yet, like a brain-devouring zombie, it refuses to die).
5. "Well, I KNOW the world's bad. The TV said so. And I'm afraid of my own shadow, cos marauding packs of darkly-complected druggies & thieves are going to break in, & I can't shoot 'em cos Obama took my gun for his socialist regime that he instituted cos he hates America so much that he faked his birth certificate in order to be President & Muslim, Socialist, 9/11, Wind Turbine Syndrome, Benghazi, Sheeple, Hobby Lobby, Tea Party, Christian Nation, Gay Agenda, Feminazis, Race-card, Foetus', Men's Rights, Crazy, War-On-Xmas, just-shat-my-britches, fear-filled, I'm-a-sucker, bleep-bleep, bloop-bloop-blip, drool, fwd::fwd::fwd::urban-legend-designed-to-scare-neo-cons, vacantly-parroting-angst-based-media-clips-that-are-easily-digestible, something-else fucking-stupid, victims-always-ask-for-it, Trickle-Down-DumbAssinomics, Dark-people-immigration-reform, us-v.-them, shit-on-the-poor, Jesus-died-for-Murica, yadda yadda yadda...?"
What. The. Fuck????!!!!
Ok. Deep breath, yeah?
Let's ALL just worry about creating a happier, more peace-filled society. People who live without fear of judgment, without violence, with LOVE for EVERYONE on EARTH as their primary goal. Where we share, where we listen, where we forgive...
Xo xo
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