Friday, October 14, 2016

Please don't call it 'medical marijuana'


Time to free the 137,000 Americans (as reported by ACLU and Human Rights Watch) who languish is jail for mere drug possession. All they were doing before the trip to the pokey was self medicating. ACLU and HRW also report that in the last 2 decades arrests for violent crime are down 36% but arrests for drug possession are up 13%. Hey....gotta fill those privatized jails someway.
Time to let all 137,000 out and expunge drug possession from their records so the majority can re-enter society, including the work force.
While at it, let's deep six the name 'marijuana'. Up till American justice went berserk in the 1930's demonizing marijuana in a racist ploy to stigmatize its use by minorities and the poor, it was known as cannabis. First drug Czar Henry J. Anslinger (1882-1975) promoted the name 'marijuana' to give it an exotic, foreign sounding moniker to scare the Bejeezus out of white middle class America. Remember 1937's "Reefer Madness"?
It's cannabis, dammit. Medical marijuana may sound alliterative, but we can easily retain that with 'curative cannabis'. Or just simply CGM (Cheap Good Medicine).

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