Ron Paul on a controversial topic, page 1

reply to post by maddog99

And lest we forget: Coffee is a drug. Broccoli is a drug. Water is a drug. Any substance that has an effect on human physiology is by definition a drug. Why do they pick and choose which ones are allowed? People die from overdoses of water, for God's sake; we call it "drowning." Where's the moral outrage against our deadly lakes and rivers, against backyard swimming pools? Why isn't coffee regulated? People have DIED from overdoses of caffeine, I guarantee you, but nobody has ever died from an overdose of marijuana. Why isn't Juan Valdez a pariah as reviled as any other drug dealer?

Because coffee can't be used to make fuel for our cars and clothing and paper, that's why. Industrial hemp has NO psychoactive compounds in it, none. It cannot get you high. All it's good for is its fibers and biomass, which are extremely useful and replenishable in a single growing season. Law enforcement's opposition to it is that it looks the same as the kind of hemp that does get you high. "We couldn't enforce that!" they complain, so everyone just has to do without cheap fuel, clothing, and paper. And protein; hemp seeds have more protein in them than ground beef, whether they grow into drugless hemp or drug-full hemp (the seeds never contain drugs, only DNA and food in a crunchy shell). Legal drugs would destroy profits for a great many corporations; therefore, since corporations control politics (via lobbyists and their bribes), drugs will never be legal.

And there are other reasons, too. Legal marijuana means no more under-the-table profits for the CIA, who ships most drugs into America. That's how they fund so-called "black ops" that no one in Congress has heard of. They don't need funding approval if they're getting those funds on the sly, do they? Legal drugs would destroy that system; therefore, drugs will never be legal.

We, the People, are being screwed because those in power worship money and couldn't care less about us. Nobody we vote into office will have any chance of changing the status quo, because those offices aren't where such decisions are made. If we could vote for who gets to run the World Bank and the IMF and the BIS, we might have a chance. But we're only given the power to elect political officials, who become controlled by corporations virtually as soon as the voting is over. Dow is keeping pot illegal, not Barack Obama. It's DuPont, not Eric Holder. Why anyone still thinks their vote matters in the slightest is beyond me. "Would you like the douche, or the turd sandwich?" Republican or Democrat or independent, Christian or atheist, liberal or conservative, left or right, up or down, whatever they are, it does not matter. They do what they're paid to do... and since we only pay them $165,000 a year, but lobbyists can give them millions under the table, guess who wins? "He who has the gold makes the rules."

There's nothing good about the Federal Government anymore, nothing. It doesn't have our best interests in mind. It sure isn't serving me, but I don't own a multi-national corporation. I sure don't feel "represented" by my Congress critters (at the Federal or State level), do you? I don't think I ever have been. I'm a minority in a very great many categories. Who cares about the minority in a Democracy? Even if it's 49% of the people who want a certain thing, if 51% think they shouldn't have it, that's the end of the discussion. "Sorry, medical marijuana supporters, no pot for anyone's glaucoma, because think of the children!! We did vote on it, you know!"

Why does anyone still live here?