Kathryn in MA
New Member
Horror stories of SWAT teams invading homes and shooting the family dog have shocked us all and are forcing us to reconsider our values and priorities concerning the Prohibition of Cannabis. This thread will be where we bring our best analysis of the problem, our best fact-finding efforts, and our best arguments of persuasion to end Prohibition.
The sweep of history has been long enough that we can look back and reasonably determine what conditions have been good for humankind and what have been unmitigated disaster. One such disaster has been the attempt to legislate morality over human nature, whether it was prohibition of alcohol, drugs, gambling, and prostitution. It may be the job of the church, temple, or mosque to preach exemplary behavior and threaten doom, but no amount of law enforcement or punishment has been able to change human nature.
Prohibition of Alcohol may have been a result of efforts to improve society by improving moral behavior, but the result was still disastrous, and the social experiment ended after 13 years. Prohibition of Cannabis, however, was instituted for financial gain, racial bias, and political payback, and it's despicable nature has lead to horrendous levels of violence as organized crime and organized crime-fighting bureaucracies protect their revenue streams.
Prohibition instituted for financial gain, racial bias, and political payback is despicable and should be reason enough to end Prohibition forthwith. The sheer scale of human misery and tragedy in the wake of Prohibition should be reason enough to end Prohibition forthwith. That a neighboring country is begging us to end Prohibition because the cartels are destabilizing the very government should be reason enough to end Prohibition forthwith.
However, it is also human nature to be scared of the unknown, and to be reluctant to move from a bad place to a promised better place, if no one knows what that better place looks like. Moses led his people out of slavery, but had his hands full trying to keep everyone focused on the unknowable future when all they wanted was their old familiar situation, now looking rather rosy in hindsight. So, let us bring our best persuasions, how industry, medicine, community, will all be better for ending prohibition.
Thank you.
The sweep of history has been long enough that we can look back and reasonably determine what conditions have been good for humankind and what have been unmitigated disaster. One such disaster has been the attempt to legislate morality over human nature, whether it was prohibition of alcohol, drugs, gambling, and prostitution. It may be the job of the church, temple, or mosque to preach exemplary behavior and threaten doom, but no amount of law enforcement or punishment has been able to change human nature.
Prohibition of Alcohol may have been a result of efforts to improve society by improving moral behavior, but the result was still disastrous, and the social experiment ended after 13 years. Prohibition of Cannabis, however, was instituted for financial gain, racial bias, and political payback, and it's despicable nature has lead to horrendous levels of violence as organized crime and organized crime-fighting bureaucracies protect their revenue streams.
Prohibition instituted for financial gain, racial bias, and political payback is despicable and should be reason enough to end Prohibition forthwith. The sheer scale of human misery and tragedy in the wake of Prohibition should be reason enough to end Prohibition forthwith. That a neighboring country is begging us to end Prohibition because the cartels are destabilizing the very government should be reason enough to end Prohibition forthwith.
However, it is also human nature to be scared of the unknown, and to be reluctant to move from a bad place to a promised better place, if no one knows what that better place looks like. Moses led his people out of slavery, but had his hands full trying to keep everyone focused on the unknowable future when all they wanted was their old familiar situation, now looking rather rosy in hindsight. So, let us bring our best persuasions, how industry, medicine, community, will all be better for ending prohibition.
Thank you.