Reply #24: This would be why NORML et al can't make headway

[Occulus]

The propaganda has grown roots, sprouted, and blown its seeds across the land. The only possible counter to this is a well-respected, long-lived American Institution (the AMA comes to mind) coming forward to tell the unadulterated truth about marijuana, no matter how hard it might be for law enforcement to see the country hear it.

There are too many people who accept Authority's words as truth (even here on DU!) who have swallowed the line our government has fed the country for nearly a century regarding this plant for anything but the largest possible salvo of truth to have any effect. "Pot can kill you" only proves my point.