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.