You seem to think I’m anti-drug. Surprise; I really don’t care. We tried Prohibition on alcohol, and got nowhere. If people want to inflict damage on their brains, that’s their problem, as long as they don’t harm anyone else in the process. However, if we as a society decide to “legalize drugs”, we have to be ready to accept the consequences. I’ve said that several times here, already.

As for “DEA or FDA” blocking such tests, got proof? I’d be interested in seeing it. On the other side, I see a lot of people marching with signs saying “Marijuana is Good Medicine”, exactly none of whom is an actual M.D., medical researcher, etc. And most of them couldn’t define tetra-hydra-cannibinol to save their lives.

I stand by my professional opinion that the people who are on that side are less interested in easing the pain of chemotherapy patients than they are in appearing smart, sophisticated, compassionate… and of course getting buzzed in the process.

Here’s a challenge, for them and you. If you believe in the usefulness of medical marijuana, and the harmlessness of it or any other drug, then petition your senators and congressmen for hearings to change the Federal laws. Trust me- with the present ruling class in Washington, you will never have a better chance to get things your way. The enlightened Democrats can pass anything on a party-line vote, those evil Rethuglicans can’t stop it, and The One will almost certainly go along with whatever the party leaders on Capitol Hill send to him for his signature. And the media, especially all the celebrity crowd, will cheer all of you on. Not to mention the cocktail-party crowd and the academic “progressive” clique’.

All the stars are aligned in your favor. If you really believe this is the right thing to do, go for it.

It’s the American way.

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Either the DEA or the FDA has been blocking the studies you ask for for 50 years. I wonder why? Maybe they would give an answer you wouldn’t like.

If you think we have a “war on ‘heads’”, you must be living in Turkey.

If you think we have a “war on drugs”, you are living in a fantasy of your own creation.

What we have is a system that winks at drug use by the “elite’”, and sees it as a mark of social distinction.

We also have de facto legalization of marijuana through the spurious “medical marijuana” dodge at the state level, instead of having a single national standard for the medical use of the active ingredient, tetra-hydra-cannibinol. I’ve long suspected that the reason we don’t is that if such a nationwide standard were to be promulgated, the FDA would be legally mandated to determine the exact beneficial effects and potential side-effects (if any) of oral-respiratory delivered THC. And what if they found that the effects were either (a) minimal compared to more traditional methods (pill, IV, etc.), or (b) worse yet (from the advocates’ POV) just a placebo effect- that is, people were told it works, believe it works, and so it “works” whether it actually does or not?

This would not be happy-making for the heads. The fact that the “advocates” are tap-dancing around this by carefully avoiding asking for just such tests is telling. If they believed it worked, they’d ask. The fact that they don’t tells me that they have about as much confidence in their product’s actual “healing power” as any other snake-oil salesman. therefore, as long as they can keep the issue confused by keeping it “local” (state level), they can play, get high, and thumb their noses at the “straights” without actually having to prove their case- or even prove that they have one.

And our “enlightened leaders” play along for their own reasons. This issue (the Mexican drug/arms trade) is just one more example.

Our “national drug policy” is a sham, and has been since the Fifties. The fact that while you can be arrested for dealing drugs, but not for just “possession for personal use” in most jurisdictions, and that it has been that way since we first gave Harry Anslinger the job of “stopping” the drug trade, is proof positive of that. In the Sixties and Seventies, a bunch of serious “I want to fry my brain” enthusiasts learned to use the loopholes in the laws, and they’ve been doing it ever since. And surprise!- a bunch of them are the ones helping make the laws, and shape our culture, today.

We don’t have a ‘war on drugs’. We have a price-support system for the suppliers, and a large number of supposedly intelligent people who think that they’re smarter, more creative, more attractive, more sophisticated, cooler, and just generally more wonderful when they’re stoned.

They’re wrong. They’re just too stoned to notice that they’re still making fools of themselves.

As for the “war on guns”- it predates the “war on drugs” by generations. Look up the Jim Crow laws sometime, also the Sullivan Law. In all cases, the objective was to disarm people the political leadership wanted to “keep under control”. The names change, but the philosophy remains the same.

Today the political leadership is anti-gun; no surprise. They are also pro-getting-high; this is only a surprise to anyone who slept through the Clinton Administration. (Suggested reading; “Unlimited Access; An FBI Agent Inside The Clinton White House” by Gary Aldrich. The chapters on the SPIN investigations of the various Clinton staffers who apparently couldn’t function without their Minimum Daily Requirement of pot or coke- and I don’t mean Coke Classic- are hilarious, bordering on surreal.)

A study of history can be very instructive. You should try it sometime.

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