Quote Originally Posted by onwardthroughthefog
The only REAL drug war going on is between the "legal" pharmaceutical companies and the proponents of the "illegal" version of drugs that people use to self-medicate. Do you really think it's a coincidence that these anti-pot commercials have begun almost immediately after places like Denver and a growing number of states have voted to decriminalize it for medicinal purposes?

This is specifically designed to get the VOTERS, not the SMOKERS motivated. If they can influence grandparents, parents, and other older people who DON'T smoke, those people actually VOTE!!!!!!!!! If people who want the legislation changed would take the time to participate in voting, things might change. Those commercials aren't aimed at teenagers or even adults who already smoke. They are aimed at the voters!

The drug cartel that scares me MOST is the one that produces all the legal prescriptions that we are medicating our society with. And they are certainly behind the commercials downplaying the role medicinal marijuana can have in improving the lives of people who suffer from serious diseases. The only loser if marijuana is deemed to be a legal medicine is the drug company who can no longer have a monopoly on the drugs they prescribe.

I wish more of us would help get things changed by voting out of office jerks who do not reflect your views and put into office people who actually have a mind that isn't controlled by drug companies, oil companies, etc.

Onward!
“If voting changed anything, it would be illegal.” —Emma Goldman

Voting doesn't do shit. What does it accomplish to silently mark on a ballot that you think marijuana should be legal? The people cannot defeat the corporations in the political arena. The corporations have lots of money to fund lobbyists and think tanks and to contribute to politicians, which is why politicians invariably act in the interests of the corporations and not the voters. Plus, any politician is perfectly free to contradict any promise they made on the campaign trail. Remember Jimmy Carter said he was going to decriminalize marijuana? Well, it's still not decriminalized. Voting didn't do it.

Did voting stop the English monarchy? Did voting stop slavery? Did voting stop Prohibition? Did voting stop segregation? No, in all these cases the government had a vested interest in maintaining the status quo and wasn't going to give it up unless it absolutely had to. The system didn't change because people voted for change. It changed because the majority of people wanted change and took to the streets for change. Learn from history. We have to bring legalization about ourselves. The political bureaucracy is not going to do it for us.