By Beauty Damned

Because it is our Friend

Check out this bullshit. I'm sure you've already heard that the Supreme Court of Corruption has given the feds an open invitation to prosecute those growing and using marijuana for medical purposes, even in those states that have deemed it legal for medical use.

One more way in which the Bush administration is fucking people; by appealing the ruling of a Federal Appeals Court which allowed for people to use medical marijuana.

What is wrong with a system which prosecutes people for growing and using a product that is perfectly safe for both medical and personal recreational use, while cigarettes and alcohol continue to be leading killers in this country and remain perfectly legal?

Why does our federal government continue to look upon marijuana as if it were a dangerous narcotic, when it clearly is not? There's a reason, and it has nothing to do with our best interest. I invite each and every person reading this to find one case where marijuana has caused injury comparable to that caused every single day to thousands of individuals by the use of cigarettes, alcohol and prescription drugs - ALL LEGAL. In fact, think about the side affects and problems that arise with the use of prescription drugs! Pharmaceutical companies can put pretty much any damn thing on the market they please, regardless of whether it causes everything from heart attacks and rectal bleeding to severe mental psychosis. Yet marijuana remains illegal to people who are suffering from glaucoma, lack of appetite due to AIDS and cancer, acute back pain and countless other ailments, while having virtually no negative side affects whatsoever with the exception of possible laziness, hopeless procrastination and the desire to eat copious quantities of food.

So, what is wrong with this country?

I will tell you in case you aren't already painfully aware. What is wrong with this country is that many people are sheep. They don't care about the truth, they only care about what the government tells them to do. What is wrong with this country is that our government exerts an uncomfortable level of control over many areas of our life where they should not have any control. The United States government should not have the final say in what is the best way for each of us to handle our bodies and treat our health problems. Americans should not be prevented from seeking out the medical care they need, or from using cannabis for all its amazing properties, so that the government can maintain an endless shitty agenda of demonizing cannabis in order to keep it out of the U.S. market, shielding big corporations from the profit loss that would result from the proliferation of such a cheap and infinitely useful product.

Cannabis is one of the most versatile and positively useful substances on this planet. The United States government deprives us of its legal use every single day.

This shit has got to stop. My heart breaks every time I read news like this where I realize that ignorance is a disease and propaganda is the bacteria that causes it. I am reminded that even in the year 2005, we are still fighting for things that we should never have had to fight for in the first place. Things that we are entitled to if we are to be considered free in America.

While methamphetamines grip the rural suburbs and hopeless wastelands of America, while alcohol fuels rage and domestic abuse and car accidents in homes and on highways across this country, while prescription drug addiction sweeps people into a dark, listless numb... Every day I see anti-drug ads on television where marijuana is painted as the devil, the arch-evil gateway to hell and damnation; Ads where people allow their children to drown because they're busy getting stoned or where their lives go down the toilet because they smoked pot, while you will never find these things truly happening as a result of marijuana use. I don't see ads about crack and methamphetamine. I don't see ads discouraging teens from drinking alcohol while binge drinking is the number one sport in high schools and colleges across the country. I don't see ads about domestic violence. But every day I see an ad discouraging the use of marijuana.

This is a propagandist campaign of monumental proportions and one that has been allowed to go on for three quarters of a century.

When will people wake up and demand the rights that belong to us in this country? The right to manage our health and our bodies the way we see fit? The right to grow a harmless weed in our yard and use it however we choose? When will we demand that the government stop lying to us and tell us the real reason why marijuana is illegal? When will people learn to see the truth; that the drug, alcohol, tobacco, lumber and firearms trades would all suffer? When will the average sheep in America realize that Marijuana was illegalized in the first place as the result of heavy racism, ignorance, and the protection of special interests?

Stand up Americans! Demand your right to use cannabis. For your health, for fun, to wear on your back, to write on with ink. Save the rainforest. Save lives. Fight for Cannabis. Peace the fuck out.

Posted by Maria at June 7, 2005 12:32 PM | TrackBack