Those wacky college kids with their dealing-drugs-for-tuition! Oh, but wait, see, drugs are ACKSHULLY dangerous and on par with VIOLENT CRIME. Read the article, it tells you so.
In case you're wondering, this is indeed a direct result of California's attempt to legalize recreational use of marijuana. Since it didn't raise enough of an outcry in the nation at large, apparently people need to be reminded that drugs are bad. Bad drugs.
Expect to see a lot more media presentations of recreational drugs in an evil light. With plenty of beer commercials in between.
It appears public awareness took one step forward, got tired, gave up, and is now walking two miles back. Also, I don't see why the Fed hasn't legalized it. A nation full of stoned easily-coerced people is still a world full of easily coerced people, they're just stoned... It's in the absence of a fix that anti-government suspicions are born and that's when stoned people become not-so-easily coercible stoned people.
ReplyDeleteThe rub, of course, being that those most likely to smoke are least likely to vote. Pity, really.
ReplyDeletePallas, for the most part, I do believe that you are right (that those who smoke are least likely to vote). Except that from my recent (but not as a student) exposure to Columbia University and it's student body, the residents of that campus are most likely an exception to that rule.
ReplyDeleteI put that last posting through an irony filter and almost nothing came out. ;-)
ReplyDeleteYou're gonna get so subtle and cryptic that nobody will understand a word you're saying. At which time you'll be ready to start a cult somewhere in rural Oregon, wear flowing silk robes and buy gold-plated Rolls Royces.
@Levanah: Thankfully, there are always exceptions. I don't mean to classify all users as stoners, or all stoners as lazy, but this is an issue that causes a bit of a moral panic in the religious right, and historically (and very sadly) moral panics are usually better at drawing out voters than civil liberties.
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