OK Negative Nelly, oops, I mean Dutch Masta. I disagree with you too. Please allow me to elucidate.

At the moment the DEA is in control of whether or not this drug is illegal but only because we let them. This is my point of giving our votes to MPP, NORML and SAFER as they are taking this decision away from the government and putting it in the hands of the people through direct vote.

Now, I have argued marijuana prohibition with police officers, at least one judge, and numerous people who do not smoke marijuana and started with a very negative view of it. When I was done with the debate I generally win my three seperate goals of medical rescheduling, industrial hemp and decriminalization. I will argue/debate it with anyone, any time and anywhere as long as the debate follows standard rules. These talkshow yelling matches may spark emotion, which is good for ratings, but are useless for comparing facts so I would want college debate rules. That said I have destroyed everyone that has stood up and tried to spout the government line when a vote of the listeners was taken afterwards.

The key to this is education and making the government propagandists justify their view. Brainwashed people have a problem when they run outside of the parameters of their indoctrination. When they have no answers that they haven't been fed and I start hitting them with facts they never even heard of it does one of two things. They either get really angry because they know they are losing and take it personally or they actually learn something.

This is what happens when people, intelligent people, are given all the facts and they realize that they have been let down by a large force (government) through lies, lies of omission and dishonesty. A force in their life that they have been trained to trust and obey. It pulls the rug from any support from the government position. Usually I hit them with the fact that marijuana components can cure cancer and they never rescheduled it for research, in fact destroying the research we paid for, as my closer. That usually bring a stunned quiet, to realize that our government is perfectly willing to allow people (us) die horrible deaths instead of allowing researchers to explore marijuana's medical potential. Just like they do right now for heroin and cocaine.

If we educate and let the facts speak for themselves then there is every chance of achieving our goals. It just takes people willing to get off their asses and do something effective.