XPost: alt.drugs.pot, alt.drugs.pot.hydro, alt.support.marijuana.medical   
   From: nonesuch@addy.not   
      
   	I think the best way to achieve any meaningful degree of   
   success in legitimizing cannabis is thru the present medical mj   
   process. If a substantial number of states decrim for medical use and   
   just ignore it, soon the general populace and the legislators and law   
   enforcement people will see that it's really *not* a big deal and   
   decrim will happen just because of a good stiff dose of reality.   
   Barriers will fall when a majority of the populace (including the   
   aforementioned elected/appointed officials) allow them to by dropping   
   opposition. There is still a very vocal minority who still believe the   
   old stereotypes about pot use and loudly protest even the inclusion of   
   the word marijuana in the English language; old age will be the force   
   that ends their opposition I'm afraid. A lie repeated often enough   
   becomes accepted as the truth, and said lies are too firmly ingrained   
   into their narrow minds.   
   	It's all well and good to go about espousing how wonderful and   
   repercussion-free cannabis use truly is, but I firmly believe the   
   chink in the armor of prohibition is best attacked thru the medical   
   applications of "the weed". After opposition to medical use falls,   
   decriminalization for casual personal use should be easier to attain.   
   The hesitant/noncommitted portion of society has to see with their own   
   eyes that cannabis is innocuous.   
   	BudBurner   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)