Is it the disease or the cure?

Seth Barron reports,

It’s funny, though, that the medicinal basis for legalizing marijuana has dropped out of the rhetoric around it. Now that New York has joined California and Colorado and other states in legalizing it, isn’t it surprising that the advocates aren’t citing improved health outcomes as a reason for the rest of the states to take the pledge? One would think that the need for universal Medicare would be obviated by the wide availability of marijuana.

Obviously, the medicinal benefits of marijuana were always a ruse. Same as the promises of unlimited rivers of tax revenue, hemp-based building material, empty prisons, etc. To be fair, though, I must say that the total legalization of marijuana at least spares us from having to listen to beat-down, bleary-eyed stoners whine about their “medicine.” There’s nothing more depressing than hearing an addict insist that their drug is the cure, not the disease.

Read the whole thing here: https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-dope-makes-the-poison/