This is not a good picture of the cannabis culture. It makes us look like a society of heathens.

There are greedy people everywhere, but the shootings over hard drug deals gone bad just don't even make the paper any more because the conservative press [*cough* Playboy *cough*] isn't trying to make a political statement over those types of crimes, and anyway, it's poor minorities shooting each other, right?
MMJ is certainly high on everyones' radar screens as a political issue and it's a good issue to try to polarize people over in order to win votes or sell newspapers.
stinkyattic Reviewed by stinkyattic on . History of Medical Marijuana Violence (From Playboy) In his article in the March issue of Playboy, investigative journalist Frank Owen reports on the unsolved murder of medical marijuana activist Ken Gorman, and illustrates how medical marijuana laws played a role in the killing. Gorman is hardly the only dealer who has met with violence -- here are some other cases. August 19, 2005: Half a dozen armed men descend on A Natural Source, a marijuana dispensary near Oakland, just as employees are opening for business. The intruders order the Rating: 5