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...12th grade, about half of young Americans have tried marijuana, which put me in the geeky other half. I used to think this was a good thing, since I never developed a taste for pot and avoided becoming dependent. But as the medical-marijuana movement flowered and weed's p.r. improved, I often wondered if I shouldn't have relished it as a kid, before I had a personal trainer to tsk-tsk my every vice. Shrinking testicles? Mushy brains? I came to see these as grotesqueries invented by antidrug propagandists...
...Right! God, if only that War on Drugs hadn’t been so effective! I could really use some fucking marijuana right...
...marijuana’s harmlessness is precisely what the ONDCP campaign is trying to cover up. The gun ad ends with white writing on a black screen that says “Marijuana can distort your sense of reality.” And then fades into “Harmless...
...unfortunate truth is that the White House’s sense of reality has been distorted by dogma and fears of being called soft on drugs. Marijuana is not completely harmless, but neither are caffeine nor aspirin, which cause hundreds more deaths each year. The war on marijuana is causing much more harm to the public, both financially and socially, than the drug itself ever could...
Decriminalization of marijuana is the only sensible answer because it would allow law enforcement to shift its focus to more important issues, such as terrorism and violent crime, while the ONDCP could shift its focus to more harmful drugs like cocaine and heroin. Decriminalization would save billions of dollars in taxes every year and rescue hundreds of thousands of citizens from the humiliation of being arrested for a victimless crime...