Today I am blogging two responses and my comment, from the post on Daily Kos July 9, 2009
Talk About Cutting Off Your Nose To Spite Your Face (about legalizing medical marijuana)
The only way this will happen is if Big Pharma can figure out a way to make money from it. There are many possible effective treatments and cures that never get a second look because they are naturally occurring. Unless Pharma can tweak a molecule to make a buck, they won't even look at it. If they don't want it, we won't get it - period. Sad, isn't it? - luckylizard
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There are many powerful players opposing the common sense idea of legalizing marijuana: Alcohol, Tobacco, Pharmaceutical (as noted by luckylizard), Police unions, Corrections unions, Law enforcement agencies, "tradition family values" types, religious organizations, drug testing companies, etc. - Apost8
thinkingblue: Just for the hell of it I thought I might research (via google) and try to get an answer (or a manipulation of facts) as to why "THE MAN" refuses to put forth a sensible bill to legalize marijuana. Then I remembered... "Oh, I think I've already tried and also blogged this perplexing question...
(Oct 9, 2007)WHY THE HELL IS MEDICAL MARIJUANA AGAINST THE LAW?
(Oct 29, 2007)SUPREME COURT AND DEA AGENTS MURDER MEDICAL MARIJUANA ADVOCATE
(Oct 15, 2005) EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT POT BUT WAS AFRAID TO ASK
Along with, signing numerous petitions and writing letters to our public officials concerning this stupid-make-no-sense-at-all, law we are forced to live under...
Still, even though we are sliding into an abyss of financial ruin, STILL, this archaic law stands antagonistically, in our faces, unrelenting and challenging us to break the law. I know we humans have built an enormous (out of control) political machine called "living", but someone, somewhere must poke their conditioned mind outside the culture box and question ... "I think there is something wrong with this picture."
Until that time, I will go on signing petitions, writing letters and contributing small amounts to any organization (i.e. MMP) who is unafraid to demand that this law be eradicated and marijuana become available legally... thinkingblue