Kona
Medical marijuana
Who wrote the law?
Since when do we let narcos and prison guards tell doctors what drugs may be prescribed for?
Ever since “medical marijuana” passed, the law enforcement “fraternity” got its noses out of joint. Marijuana enforcement yields huge budgets for those boys to wallow in professionally, and the low-hanging fruit that keeps corporate-owned prisons stuffed and profitable. There is no daylight between the unique American practice of prisons run for-profit, and America owning the largest jail population of serving convicts in the whole world.
We have twice as many people in jail as China, which has four times our population. If America has eight times the incarceration rate of China, and we call them “totalitarian fascists,” what then, are we?
Medical marijuana laws are society’s contorted attempt to rationalize the reality of pervasive cannabis use, without consulting the enormous cohort of authoritarians suckling at the “public safety” and penal industry teats. Enforcement and its fan boys and the whole “public safety” community have a vested financial and emotional interest in severe laws and absurd penalties. Their interest serves their immediate careers’ before societies’ needs. It is no secret all their putative “research” on cannabis is baked, dissed as anecdotal opinion by peer review.
So, who set these prejudiced amateurs loose to write prescriptions for medicine into law? Is the Legislature too lazy to write its own laws, or too cheap to consult medical experts? Where is the governor in this reefer madness?
Bruce Baron
Kona