I hope we don't have to read many more of these posts. It's beyond depressing to see someone so anxious to submit to a lawless, self-interested institution that has just deliberately robbed most of us twice. I think the lack of any groundswell of agreement with your suggestions shows that most people here are rightly cynical about appealing to the rationality of a government that has showed many times over that it will only undertake actions that are in its own political or economic interest.
On the merits, the argument for medicinal marijuana is a lot more convincing than the argument for offshore gambling, and respectable scientific types have been making that argument for some time. All it has gotten them is arrested. The most effective statements on behalf of medicinal marijuana have come from users who stand up to the government by publicly asserting their constitutional rights and refusing to back down. And the heroes of American history are not those who proposed to work within the system to convince King George to stop fucking with us.
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I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.
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