Archive for June 9th, 2008
Just an observation about the ‘gateway drug’
Today I heard someone spouting the “marijuana is a gateway drug” argument and something hit me. Besides the obvious fact that alcohol and nicotine are always the first drug anyone tries, everyone who actually perpetuates this hollow argument has either a) never even tried marijuana or b) tried marijuana and stopped. The base hypocrisy in this is hard to ignore.
Reformed junkies don’t come back and say it was the fault of marijuana as their gateway. Parents of junkies might say that, but they probably have a well-stocked liquor cabinet at home. I know this whole argument has been played-out on both sides, but truly, one side is glaringly ignorant in the whole affair. It doesn’t affect stoners, it affects cancer patients receiving the best possible treatment for their nausea, vomiting and loss of appetite. It actually affects everyone, when you consider the loss of potential tax revenue and incredibly high costs of a failing war on drugs.
The War on Health: 35 states have legally recognized marijuana’s medicinal value.
Kucinich: Impeach Bush, uphold the Constitution (where the hell is the media?)
They continue to mention the proposed windfall tax on oil companies in the Senate, but haven’t yet mentioned the introduction of Articles of Impeachment against President Bush in the House of Representatives. Do they need a map of the Beltway? It’s not like they’d need to travel far.
Is this the same media that made every marital misstep of President Clinton a national story for months? I’m not saying he shouldn’t necessarily be judged at some point, but maybe in a book — or if you’re religious, by God — and not in a media that should for the benefit of the people. It’s more like the media that allowed a Pentagon-planted propaganda campaign to lead us into a false war of aggression. The Founding Fathers would have loved the internet in its current state, free enough to matter and alert enough to call shenanigans on corruption.
Check out Raw Story for more video and a PDF link for the entire Articles of Impeachment.
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