| Marshall Johnston 2005-12-27, 6:00 pm |
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The Fraud of Medical Marijuana
Pot smokers usually agree that smoking pot is more fun than
drinking alcohol. Pot smokers seem like a harmless lot. There are
no pot smokers whom you can see laying in the gutter covered with
their own excrement, urine and puke. They generally do not dig
through garbage cans for something to eat or beg for money to
feed their pot habit. Neither are these people found in the
emergency wards after passing out and falling under a tram or an
automobile or having their heads wrapped in bandages after
blacking out and falling flat onto their faces. You do not
usually find these pot smokers belligerently picking fights and
suffering the cuts and contusions that result thereby. Neither do
they suffer from liver and kidney malfunction, high cancer rates,
arthritis and heart disease. They do not have a high incidence of
auto accidents where they drive over innocent pedestrians. Also,
arson, destruction of property, vandalism, assault and battery,
murder, theft, etc., are not noticeably high among this group.
However, you DO find such things and many other evils besides
among those people who drink alcohol to excess.
So, why is it that alcohol is condoned and encouraged while
marijuana smoking is prohibited? Who writes the laws that allows
this discrepancy to occur? As is usual in the West, the laws are
written by those who benefit from them and not by those who must
suffer under them.
And so, once again, we must ask ourselves the question: Who
Benefits? Obviously the first beneficiary is the booze industry.
Who else benefits from the drunkenness of the People?
When drunks fall down, they need doctors and hospitals.
Drunks get into legal trouble and need lawyers. Gambling and
prostitution are vices which benefit from the drunkenness of their clients.
In short, all of the services that benefit from drunks becoming
inebriated and drunks destroying themselves and others, are
services that are highly profitable. So, of course,they write laws that
benefit themselves. They promote alcohol consumption and discourage
the smoking of marijuana. And when marijuana is illegal, then its price is
very high so this is
beneficial to the criminals of Mexico and other pot growing locations
who get high profits from their crops and for transportation and
distribution. If marijuana growing was legal, then the price
would be nearly zero because it can be grown anywhere. Pot
smokers would grow their own intoxicants and drink less alcohol.
Now, I am not condoning the smoking of pot but merely pointing
out something odd about the medical marijuana debate. In this
debate, society is being manipulated by the Media to be
either for or against medical marijuana for sick people. Those
with cancer and other debilitating diseases have all agreed that
by smoking pot they are able to withstand the effects of
chemotherapy and to eat their food without up-chucking.
But the actual debate is being waged for the hearts and minds of
the ordinary citizens who neither smoke pot nor have a disease.
The debate is being waged for the votes of the average citizen.
The citizens are being asked to decide medical drug laws for
which they are neither qualified nor interested in deciding. Why
is this?
You see, the issue is really not at all about whether marijuana
should be given to sick people. From a medical standpoint, if the
drug relieves suffering without dangerous side-effects, then it
is a good therapy. So, the ordinary citizen should not be
required to decide whether it should be allowed or not since it
is a medical decision alone. The ten thousand other drugs that
physicians use are not placed before a committee of laymen to
decide whether they should be used or not, so what is so special
about marijuana? Why is such an issue put on the ballot for the
uninformed and uneducated people to vote on? Quite simply -- the
people are being brainwashed.
When the Media rages through both sides of the debate --
some saying "Yes" and some saying "No" -- without
really attempting to clarify the situation, then you know that
neither a "yes" nor a "no" is their goal. The main goal in fomenting this
debate is to brainwash the People with the idea that marijuana is a
pharmacological drug that is prescribed by doctors to people who are sick
and NOT a recreational substance on the same level as alcohol. They want the
People to
begin thinking of marijuana as something that a pharmacy
dispenses for a fee and not as an agricultural product that
anyone can grow. They want to keep marijuana banned as an illegal
drug even though the marijuana plant produces more paper pulp per
acre than do pulp forests. The marijuana plant has 10,000 useful
products that can be made from it including a very nice. soft
cloth, strong rope, eatable seeds, as well as oils, paints and
plastics. It is an extremely valuable agricultural product that
can benefit any country that grows it commercially. But because
it causes those in liquor, medicine and law to not make money,
they want it banned. Or if not banned outright, they want it
classified as a controlled substance in such a way that they can
reap a profit by selling it through their already established
commercial channels.
The Medical Marijuana Debate is just another swindle. Its
goal is not to determine the advisability of letting cancer
patients take an illegal drug or not. After all, most of the
drugs that cancer patients take are not only highly illegal
without a prescription but extremely toxic as well. But there is
no debate on whether to allow cancer patients to take morphine
patches or swallow a hundred other drugs prescribed by their
doctors. Why is this?
The goal of the Medical Marijuana Debate is to convince people
that marijuana should be a controlled substance that only the
doctors and pharmacists should be allowed to dispense. Those
in the medical profession, in the legal profession and in
the liquor industry are bribing the politicians. You see, once
they can make money, then ANYTHING is okay to do. An example
is the Las Vegas gambling arena controlled by organized crime
syndicates where EVERY vice is condoned.
But if they lose money, then it is made to be illegal no
matter how beneficial it is to all of the rest of Mankind.
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