Friday 4:20
I know that you were waiting on the edge of your seat for me to resume my Friday 4:20 posts, after my two week hiatus due to my extremely intense and serious reasons for not updating my blog. So here you go, you drug policy reform buffs.
This weeks’ Friday 4:20 post concerns the man that I named my blackberry after, President-elect Barack Obama. You may have heard of him and you may think that he is the saviour of the universe, depending on which political views you espouse. There are only two ways to think, conservative or liberal. If you are not one of us, you must be one of them. Rightwing nutjob or leftwing moonbat.
The man that Obama has put forward to be the United States Chief Medical Officer, also known as the surgeon general, in not a man who is friendly towards reforming the drug laws in general and the pot laws in particular. I swear that Sanjay Gupta employs the same reefer madness speech-writers as John Walters. But don’t take my word for it. Alternet has the real scoop. He did pen an atrocious article for Time magazine explaining Why I Would Vote No On Pot. Just go on over there and take a look at some of that reefer madness. He believes all the Drug Czar talking points, that pot does not have medical value or should be a drug of last resort, even when it is the safest and best choice. He also believes that it has all the cancer-causing properties of tobacco, even when studies have never shown that smoking pot causes cancer.
Oh Barry, how could you go ahead and get this loon for a Surgeon General! The pot people are going to have to keep waiting for their saviour. The best we can hope for is that they will at least stop the federal raids on medical marijuana growers and distributors. After all, medical marijuana is legal in 13 states as of the Presidential election. All the Federal drug warriors have to do is nothing and things will get better!
