When I was in HS, I remember "The Drug Talk" and saying that Cannabis had no "medicinal value, other than treatment of glaucoma"--and even as a teenager, I knew it was bullshit. I had already seen alcohol do a lot more damage to people than Cannabis ever could.

I'm overjoyed the truth has finally come out. The stigma is evaporating in some areas. Unfortunately, the states where it's still illegal are still struggling.

I know I've become more active, joining @norml and other organizations for ending the failed drug war/prohibition.

Alcohol prohibition should have taught law enforcement a lesson, instead it made policing and "law enforcement" into a business, where illegal cannabis helped the prison industry become an "industry". It still maintained illegal activity, gang-related dealing black market drugs and contributing to the crime rate.

All over a plant. It grows naturally. It's a weed, in fact. Many strains and types that provide many beneficial products that would make some commercial items obsolete. Hmmmm...wonder why it's illegal?

I always heard it was the cotton industry that didn't want hemp, for example, to be legal.

And I always just figured that big pharma and the oil industries didn't want Cannabis in any form to be legal because it would cut into their profits.

That's the crux of it--oh, and back in the 30s, they tried to say that smoking marijuana would make black men rape white women---which added the racist aspect of the drug war--which goes on to this day, albeit for a different reason--just to automatically suspect black people of using marijuana more than a white person would--for example.

A black friend of mine told me she and her brother got pulled over once and the cop scoured the car and found a seed and tried to arrest them. FOR A CANNABIS SEED! Took him 20 minutes to find it.