The Medical Miracle You'll Get Arrested for Using

Marijuana was a popular botanical medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries, common in U.S. pharmacies of the time.

Yet, in 1970, the herb was declared a Schedule 1 controlled substance and labeled as a drug with a "high potential for abuse" and "no accepted medical use."

Three years later the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) was formed to enforce the newly created drug schedules, and the fight against marijuana use began.

The Huffington Post has a concise history of marijuana prohibition, and the struggle for legalization, that is well worth reading -- but the most successful movement to date, and the one that is set to produce the first legal marijuana market in decades, is the medical marijuana movement.

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http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/11/26/obama-war-on-weed.aspx?e_cid=20111126_DNL_art_1

It has links to reputable sites all through it.

Mercola is a horrible site, chock full of misinformation for the gullible. Like the proverbial broken clock, he might once in a while publish useful or mostly true information, but it doesn't even begin to make up for the rest of the shit.

I'm pro-legalization, but I actually bothered to read the article and it's filled with Mercola's usual logical fallacies and leaps of faith. Do I have the energy to write a full assessment of his usual routine? Hell no! I'm done. Oh, I know I'll let emotion take over, and I'll spend a few seconds responding to something or another, but I've been done for years. I'm worn out. People don't give a shit about honest, science-based discussion. They just don't.

And yet I can't learn that and live with it. Ugh.

Personally, I appreciate this being reported so well by an alt health site. eom

You showed me!

I would also unrec this article had it come from a libertarian site, too. But I don't expect many people to understand.

:rofl:

:thumbsup:

Why use a well-known right-wing scam artist, when you could have gone to so many other sources?

:shrug:

consider Mercola a "scam artist". And I've never noticed an RW stuff; though I have to admit those of you with a strong aversion to the site are probably much more familiar with it than I am.

I never expected a alt health site to publish a pro-cannabis piece. That's why it is unusual, and why I wanted to post.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/09/1014847/-How-to-convert-New-Agers-to-Right-Wing-Lunacy

And not expecting an "alt med" site to publish a pro-cannabis is even more odd. I can't think of any reason not to expect that.

If you don't like the source, pay no attention. Or whatever.


eom

In other words, you can't bother to defend the source once it has been shown to be pure crap.

Secondly, you can't be adult enough to acknowledge that the source is pure crap.

Pitiful.