Marijuana is not a single-issue issue.

[caseymoz]

68. Frankly, I think . . .

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. . . you'd probably make more headway with it if you kept it a single issue. Ever hear of overreach?

First, I'll make it clear. I'm pro-legalization, 100 percent. And its medical uses or its promise of environmental salvation make no difference in my point of view about whether it should be legalized. Does that ever occur to you? Yet, if I question one assurance about its benefits, pot activists get in my face.

Let's take this, composite, generic quote by activists, "Marijuana is going to solve so many problems. I know you're skeptical, but I'm going to keep insisting and talking louder and making more, irrelevant, implausible promises because making the tale taller will win over your already doubting mind to help get it legalized. Oh, and here's a ton of reading to do, and if you don't do it, I want you to know you're letting the world go down the drain." Wrong approach.

Take an example from alcohol. Do you know how many diseases alcohol was used to treat? That when it was first distilled its use was mainly considered medicinal? It was considered to have medicinal uses right up until Prohibition, and the Prohibitionists didn't care then (but left it legal for medicinal purposes, meaning lawmakers thought it more medically useful than now with marijuana).

It turns out all its medical uses were bullshit. People were just mistaken, but it's now legal anyway. Its lack of keeping its medical promise made no damn difference to its legal status since.

Try to learn from this. What are you doing wrong? One thing not to do is make promises about it. Anti-Prohibitionists didn't make any about alcohol prior to repeal. No matter how many guarantees you make about weed, you're not going to change the bedrock fact that its main use will always be recreational. Making further promises about it will always come off as looking like you're distracting from that major fact. Making more makes you look more desperate to hide it. Nothing is going to change with human psychology about that. Ever. Deal with it and stop complaining.

Almost every time I talk to a marijuana activist, I leave with my face in my palm. You'll never get it done at this rate. What's more, you and your fellow activists seem unable to do anything but repeat the same mistake.

I do get so tired of being talked down to by pot activists. And if I'm a non-user, friendly to your cause, and I feel like this, imagine what it's like for those unfriendly or indifferent to it.