Ditto. End the prohibition. Stop funding narco terrorists, organized crime, and dirty cops/politicians. Increase education and addiction treatment. Laws don’t stop folks with a predilection for self destructive behaviors.

“We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities,” Ehrlichman reportedly said.

This dovetails perfectly with Nixon’s racist “southern strategy” and his personal lust for power – consequences be damned. This is why the nation’s prisons and cemetaries are full of people who shouldn’t be there.

Come to think of it, Nixon and Miscavige share a lot of the same qualities. Power – consequences be damned.

Now, THAT is funny Lawrence! Comedic post of the day!

Gee whizz Lawrence, were it not for the smiley face I’d almost think you didn’t like me.

You are not worth it. 🙂

That sounds about right, I’ve often wondered why he was so against SO members having used LSD in the past.

Hubbard didn’t want his followers to have the profound spiritual experiences he had while on drugs. People who have those experiences often don’t need his philosophy. Not endorsing drugs, just sayin’. He was not one to welcome competition from any source.

What gets me is reading Scn-ists posts on FB (yes, I have a few friends who are is, though I do have a moratorium – no new Scn-ists), posting something about some study showing evidence of irreparable harm from smoking hoo-haa. And here I thought that going OT makes you such a logical, even faultless, perfect thinker.

Aren’t cause-and-effect, start-change-stop, flows, etc. all among the basic-basics of Scn? But here are OT’s who apparently think that the drug prohibition doesn’t have consequences (of course, sadly, the elimination of drug use is not and never will be one of them)? While they all seem to be so keenly aware of Grand Gov’t Conspiracies of oppression, none of them seem to notice the police state that has evolved out of the drug war. Sometimes you have to pick the lesser of two evils, and drug legalization to me, has conclusively proven to be just that.

“Marijuana causes new clusters to form”

I don’t know if you’re joking, Lawrence but on the chance you’re serious I wish to take you to task on that assertion. You made the assertion so it is, in my opinion, your obligation to support it. You should be able to explain what a “cluster” is. Please do. You should be able to explain how marijuana causes ‘clusters’ to form. Please do. And you should be able to explain what you mean by the word “form”. Please do. That’s at least three things you have to know in order to make that statement. Please share that knowledge. You owe an explanation unless of course you’re kidding.

As for helping future generations, I say let us give them a legacy where high value is placed on critical thinking skills. Such value doesn’t prevail today as evidenced by the cheering crowds sucking up the non-stop malarky of politicians (especially in an election year).

Marijuana causes new clusters to form, so I say with all do respect, is it really helping future generations on Earth in any real way? The only people it is really helping is the Church of Scientology because it means that in the future some people’s Drug Rundowns and OT IV will be 1, 2 or as many as 3 intensives more, PLUS Sec. Checks. 🙂