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If weed is illegal, then liquor, tobacco, and caffeine should certainly be illegal.
The original article has some fairly insane bits in it, but many of the initial facts are accurate.
Hemp, in both its intoxicating and its non-intoxicating forms were made illegal because of an industrial conspiracy, funded by the pharmaceutical industry, the liquor industry, the logging/paper industry, the oil companies, and the cotton industry. The fear-mongering propaganda used to incite support for the criminalization of cannabis was both entirely inaccurate and profoundly racist.
MJ should be legal in all its forms. I have no problem with giving it mild regulation and taxing it. But it should be legal. Hemp is a wonder crop, and weed is at worst no more dangerous a drug than alcohol, and at best probably much safer.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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