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One of the indirect though no less serious consequences of marijuana prohibition is the mischaracterization of clinical research in order to support the federal government’s bankrupt policy.
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For decades opponents of marijuana law reform policies have falsely argued that marijuana is a ‘gateway’ to drug abuse — a guilt-by-association charge that implies that because tens of millions of people have used cannabis and a minority of these tens of millions have also tried other drugs that somehow it must have been the pot that triggered the hard drug use.
According to the blurb, thousands of people come from all over the world to celebrate and experience the cannabis movement in California. Â The THC expose is a three day consumer trade show open to the public and has everything related to cannabis: marijuana music, cannabis art and smoking accessories
Note: The following story has been taken from the Pueblo Chieftain, a Southern Colorado newspaper. As the whole point of the piece is for medical marijuana users to tell their sto
"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."
Abraham Lincoln (1809-65), U.S. President.
Speech, 18 Dec. 1840, to Illinois House of Representatives
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