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The Devil’s Oregano
Last night, the Special Lady Friend finished up her final night as Head Sign Language Interpretor at Seattle Hempfest. She’s been doing it every year for several years, and feels so strongly about legalization that she flew back to Seattle (two weeks before our wedding!) to interpret onstage for one more year, and to make sure that the reins are handed off to her successor properly.
As if to further underscore the blinkered lunacy of keeping marijuana illegal while far more dangerous and addictive chemicals remain perfectly legal, I stumbled across this article yesterday:
A new study in the journal Neurology is being hailed as unassailable proof that marijuana is a valuable medicine. It is a sad commentary on the state of modern medicine—and US drug policy—that we still need “proof” of something that medicine has known for 5,000 years.
Strangely enough, despite mountains of scientific evidence to the contrary, there remain millions of benighted fools in this country who see no difference between marijuana and genuinely dangerous, addictive drugs like heroin and meth and Prozac. My hunch is that there’s probably strong overlap between this group and that 30% of the American public who, despite mountains of scientific evidence to the contrary, still believe that Dear Leader knows what the bloody hell he’s doing.
Perhaps I could get a research grant to study this phenomena…
