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ONDCP’s Tom Riley’s inane utterance can be corrected and stated as follows:

"…a lot of the people who are behind this aren't really interested in sick people who need medicine, they're interested in marijuana prohibition and they're ignoring the suffering of genuinely sick people to get it."

The legal availability of alcohol and tobacco, along with 46-million Americans who lack health care insurance in the U.S., makes a mockery of any government claims about marijuana and the government’s concern for public health. Health issues are a red herring that can apply to anything. Rather than fall into the health argument trap, let’s focus on the issues for marijuana prohibition that we know exist; the ones the drug warriors never mention.

For instance, how about focusing on these questions: What is it about fascists that make them fear a benign drug that creates in its user's minds a peaceful contemplation and introspection? Is marijuana seen by reactionaries as a threat to their culture of obedience? In the puritanical world of the drug warrior, is thinking for oneself as bad as having sex with oneself? Maybe.

Personally, I think it's a lot more sinister than most realize. It's all about making the world "drug-free". The only way to do that is through absolute global social order. There are a few people at the core of all this who believe that is not only achievable, but that it is desirable. They believe this religiously.

It all started with The Seed, spread into the government, like this, and has been exported around the world, like this: http://dfaf.org/about/founders.php

Yeah, way too bizarre for most anybody to swallow. But the current drug war doesn't just *look* like the actions of a totalitarian state, it actually originated in one. It's a viral program that disables the logic capabilities of those affected, and was originally designed to do one thing: fix social defects and maintain absolute order.

No shit.