I would hope that in the information age the propagada that was pushed so hard in the 80s can't take hold.
Until the old men on the Hill are either voted out or die off, that mindset will remain. The Gov't spent too much time and money on Dare and other anti-pot propaganda and legislation to reverse their decisions now. They can not admit they lied.
I think it goes a lot deeper than that. Too many rich people stand to lose a lot of money if marijuana is legalized. It's not about fighting the old grandpaw who thinks wacky tobacky is a gateway drug that makes crazed negroes rape white women. It's lobbyists for big pharma, lobbyists for the private prison industry, lobbyists for cigs and alcohol, how much funding would the DEA lose, how about all the industries that would be impacted financially by hemp becoming legal. It's money plain and simple and has nothing to do with safety, or addiction or any of those things they say they care about.
...so if, "everybody was smoking it" and "half of the baby boomers changed to conservative ideologues",.. isn't that proof that marijuana causes serious brain damage?
Well I was not smoking it, but I did go see "REEFER MADNESS" in uniform, in Annapolis. IMHO, pretty "hard core."
In 1972 my college friends and I bet how long it would be before pot was legalized - no one guessed past 1979. Then cocaine and crack came along and the fun pot scene became blood and money.
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