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Originally Posted by ilovetv
I mentioned OWS as an example of the phoniness from groups that decry and protest "GREED" on the part of
Big Corporate,
Big Business,
Big Wall Street,
"Corporate Fat Cats"
Big Pharma......
..but NOT on the part of Big POT, Big Weed, and Big Dispensers or any special-interest groups wanting to cash in on legalized pot that's a multi-billion-dollar Big Business in California alone, as stated in the article I linked.
They want their hands on the MONEY, as evidenced by the defeat of the regulatory legislation in the article I linked above.
It's also the phoniness in calling it a "medical" need when it's simply a want, to get high without all the prosecutions, fines, probations and criminal court records. (I do think it should be de-criminalized....which is not the same as total legalization. I think it's absurd and crippling for twenty-somethings trying to start a career to have criminal court records following them for having been arrested for pot possession/use in college.)
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Are you kidding me? It may be a billion a year business, but it's HARDLY "big business" here in the US. It's the ultimate example of SMALL business, of entrepreneurship. It's the "little guy" finding his niche.
It's illegal because the alcohol and pharma industry want it illegal. Privatized prisons with occupancy guarantees don't want it legal either. There's a whole lot of money spent on "the drug war", and there's a lot of people getting very rich on it's being illegal.
It's much, much, much less harmful than alcohol. It's also less inebriating than alcohol.
Of course you don't
let kids have it. But, unfortunately, it won't be any different than it is now, they'll get it.
Kids that are going to become addicts WILL become addicts...to something. Kids who don't become addicts won't, no matter what is available to them. Not everyone is an alcoholic though alcohol is available and not everyone will be a pot head if it's available.
As for the "occupy movement", it was taken over by the powers that be and corrupted. The big banks, wall street, diverted interest away from themselves. You do know that the Fed is giving the banks almost $90 billion every month buying their bad mortgages and to keep the interest rate on treasuries down? (It's why your CD pays less than 1%.) That's over a trillion dollars every year to the big banks. And that's on top of the free money (interest payments) they get with the fractional reserve system we use. If you knew the truth, how corrupt everything is, you'd be less critical of the occupy movement.