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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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I agree ..."medical" is basically a phony argument indeed. Baby boomers want to smoke pot, and always have (in general). Since it's not (yet) kosher to say that, medical blah blah sounds so much more enlightened.