It would be nice if the far left, for once, did some introspection.

[Warren DeMontague]

35. It's an issue. People have been trying to blow it off or treat it like a joke for too fucking long.

Why do I care? Want the whole fucking laundry list of reasons? Because personal freedom. Because the drug war is a fucking failure. Because there is no legitimate medical or scientific rationale to have cannabis illegal, when even a DEA administrative law judge called it the "most therapeutically benign pharmaceutically active agent known to man"

I barely smoke it at all, anymore, although I smoked the crap out of it in my youth. No, it was never "hard to get", that's part of the fucking POINT as to why prohibition is such a giant joke. I hardly ever get high, anymore. But you know what I do do frequently? I drive on the roads, I use the public services, I pay the taxes in a state that is raking in large amounts of revenue from a policy of having cannabis legal, regulated, and taxed. Yeah, it's not hard for twenty or thirtysomethings who are full of themselves and in love with the sound of their own voices to find, but I have an 80something year old mother who uses the stuff for pain and relaxation when she can. She needs to find a dealer? Why the fuck should she have to? Why shouldn't she be able to walk into a clean, well lighted, government regulated establishment and buy a cannabis based product that has been tested for pesticides and is clearly labeled for THC and CBD content (because sometimes people want more of one, and less of the other) and in the process pay taxes on the transaction that go toward funding government services?

You're "curious" why I care? Really??? I CAN DO THIS ALL FUCKING DAY, JACK.

I'm on about an actual issue of actual policy that has actual, real-world consequences for actual people. You've got a yellowjacket in your shorts because you're mad about something you read on counterpunch. Whatever.