I want to buy mushrooms at walmart tomorrow!" I agree, but I'd throw in meth and everything else too. "Medical Marijuana is fine, but let's start the fight where is starts. A Doug Stanhope quote I've always loved, and I'm paraphrasing. Hyperbole of effects and consequences will continue to worsen and that will lead to harder policing and sentencing, move the goalposts that much further for legalization, and take a large number of people who would have been on the correct side of the battle and moved them to the other side. Aligning this shift with a national/global mindset, I think the full scale legalization of cannabis will push other drugs further into the fringe, especially amphetamine and opiate type drugs. As someone who holds a medical card now I can tell you, experiencing that lifelong fear and anger caused by cannabis prohibition melt away feels wonderful, but it has stimmied my outrage and even my vocality about legislative reform for all drugs. It's certainly not impossible for a person to think that way without ever using cannabis, but for the average person having the positive experiences that cannabis generally provides and contrasting it with all the hypocrisy and propaganda that they have heard about it all of their lives and the criminal penalties they could suffer for using it usually tends to make you "what the f*ck?!". People call marijuana a gateway drug because of the thought that it leads people to trying more drugs, we know that isn't true, but I do think that it is a gateway to critical thinking in the realm of social policy and human rights. I personally think that legalizing cannabis alone would be a detriment to the fight for full legalization of "illicit" drugs.
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