What effect would the passage of Californias medical marijuana initiative have?
In terms of legalization, not much, because marijuana will still be federally banned. If the initiative passes, clinics will open and the DEA, mark my words, will come and bust them just to make the point that California is not allowed to make this decision. But it will be a big blow to the “drug war.” It will be saying that the biggest state in the union, with a ninth of the population, wants terminally ill people and sick people to get marijuana. That’d be great. So I always recommend to people, give money to that campaign, stuff envelopes, knock on doors for that campaign, because it’s a chance to really put a dent in the drug war. In other words, forget about a drug war altogether? Whether to legalize or decriminalize drugs is a political decision that we’re not nearly ready to make. The public needs to have an honest, open dialogue about what our real drug problems are. Since the Jimmy Carter regime, there’s been this deliberate attempt to close the debate, to clamp down on the wa
