CNBC and Marijuana
I was reading though a CNBC article on Citigroup's crappy stock performance and saw two links on the right side of the page. The first was a blog post by Cliff Mason titled Is Now The Time To Legalize Drugs?. The second was a featured slideshow titled Cost of Chronic Pain Relief (or as it says within the slideshow, A Gallery of Medical Marijuana).
Mr. Mason's post has some good stuff in it:
Barack Obama won't admit that the war on drugs is a failure, but in his autobiography he admitted to doing cocaine in his youth. During the primaries the Clinton campaign tried to gin-up a scandal out of this fact. I think the real scandal is that the President Elect believes that other people should go to prison for something that he, and many others, get away with Scott free.[...]
The war on drugs does two things: it makes the business of drugs more profitable and more violent, and it sends lots and lots of people to prison.
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No one believes that illegal drugs are anything but harmful, but Americans, or at least our leaders, use that fact to stop any discussion of a rational policy to deal with the problem.
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It's a fact that we can't prevent people from getting their hands on drugs in this country by locking up dealers and using F-16s to spray herbicides all over Colombia. We've tried for over 30 years, and the only thing the policy succeeds at is ruining lives.
Unfortunately, he's part of the "legalize it and then tax it" crowd. I suppose that's the best we can hope for these days.
On the other hand, I think the medicinal pot slideshow is an unqualified success. Each page gives a quick description of the twelve varieties displayed along with per-ounce and per-pound street prices. Chemdog, Jack Herer, Island Sweet Skunk, Kali Mist, O.G. Kush, NYC Diesel, Sour Diesel, Trainwreck, Super Silver Haze, Sweet Tooth, and Purps are profiled and shown.
Gives me the munchies just looking at them. :)
Comments
Hello.
I have been in severe physical pain for over 7 years now. Back in 2005, my sister was diagnosed with Melanoma. Marijuana helped her with many symptoms. She didn't like to smoke alone so asked if I wished to join her. I was amazed at how much this helped my pain. I was pain-free for 4 hours, a feat that had yet been attained with a list of other medications. I wish TX would change its laws & join the other 14 states that acknowledge these findings.
Posted by: Destiny | October 19, 2009 10:19 AM