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Originally Posted by verklingen
i'm not jumping for joy either, i guess i'm just optomistic. i consider it a sign of changing times. who expects change overnight? first comes a shift from criminal to non-criminal, opening the way for a shift from all use being abuse to simple, responsible use being seen as harmless.
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When I was growing up in the 60s and 70s it was common knowledge that marijuana was a 'harmless recreational drug'.
This was common knowledge because our government had spent 50 years on a disinformation campaign to convince the public it was not medicine, or useful, but merely a "harmless recreational drug".
In the almost 50 years since that time I have seen the government shift it's propaganda to "a dangerous gateway drug".
And now the new rallying cry is "treatment not jail".
You've come a long way baby - from "harmless recreational drug" to "treatment not jail".