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I'm not going to go into why I haven't. Let's just say it's my personal choice and leave it with that.
But it's obvious that the politics behind it in this country touches on both the issues of race and poverty, as well as a protection racket for so-called legal purveyors of both mind altering substances and Big Pharma.
We have major problems with this country when it comes to the issues of poverty, the lop-sided wealth distribution curve, the prison industrial complex, our crumbling infrastructure, corporate malfeasance, corporate control of our political system and the use of propaganda to skew our national priorities in the wrong direction.
If I could distill America's main problem down to a single definition, I would choose the fact that our national priorities are wrong and a lack of viable democratic action is the cause.
We equate profit with freedom and security. Our marijuana policies are an example of this… In that those entities that I mentioned above view pot as an existential threat to their ability to peddle their poisons, as pot can be cultivated and consumed without the need for a large corporate provider which has patented products and the willingness of our legal system to protect their monopoly.
We also have drug policies as a system of control over the poor and minorities in this country, as well as an incentive to expand and militarize our police forces, use a tool to restrict personal freedom, maintain a massive, for profit, prison industry as well as legitimize a national system of propaganda production.
It seems that the best way to fight all of this is our vote. Rather than establishing and maintaining the poor priorities of propaganda, militarization, fear, racism, classism, violence and commercial profit that comes with prohibition, we have the chance, through democratic means, to alter our national priorities for the better.
Instead of the corporations, it's up to the people. And in spite of my own personal predilections toward pot, I defer to a democratic process to determine its availability in our society.
Democracy will create better priorities in the long run.
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