There’s a new website out that I encourage all TWB readers to check out. SmartApproaches.Com, created by our friends at 420radio.org, highlights the ridiculous logic that is being propped up by the ‘Smart Approaches To Marijuana’ (SAM) campaign. The website is full of satire that shows just how dumb the SAM campaign is. The fact that the SAM campaign failed to purchase the most logical domain name should speak for itself. Below is more information about the site. Show your support!:
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No more false dichotomies. It’s time for a real conversation about pot. So long as we never, ever legalize it.
“Incarceration or legalization?” “Lock ’em up, or let ’em loose?” These phrases have dominated the discussion about marijuana over the past decade among people who do not smoke marijuana. As a result, marijuana-legalization advocates — many of whom are scientists, doctors, people in recovery, disadvantaged communities or young people affected by marijuana use and its policies — have been at the forefront of changing marijuana laws in the United States.
Smart Approaches is a group of prohibitionists and rehab professionals advocating for a fresh approach that neither legalizes, nor demonizes, marijuana… other than arresting adult users of marijuana and forcing them into our rehabs.
We wish …
To restrict public policy to discussions that maintain arrests for growers and sellers of marijuana.
To have honest conversation about reducing the hard-to-defend injustices of continuing to arrest pot smokers, such as lifelong stigma due to arrest, who really only require temporary disruption in life for the purposes of re-education.
To prevent the establishment of legal American marijuana markets that would check identification of children — and to prevent American businessmen from taking profits from Mexican cartels. Those are the very likely results of legalization.
To promote research of marijuana’s medical properties but restrict its use to profitable pharmacy-produced medications.
