SAVE THE POT DEALERS!
(Time)
"They're almost as bad off as journalists." Who are we talking about, here? Actors? Nope. English majors? Eh, possibly. More like marijuana dealers. For you see, especially in California where obtaining a medical marijuana license is easier than a driver's license, most have turned away from their dependable dealers in favor of allowing the strong hand of capitalism to feed their need.
I think what's most endearing about this article is its blatent honesty -- there's no candy coating the fact that the author himself bullshit the system to get weed (as did his wife) and that the War on Drugs hasn't really accomplished much more than creating an army of hipster smokers. ("Also, legitimizing pot hasn't created more users; it has just produced more annoying ones, who now apply Whole Foods--ian levels of snobbiness to the differences between Hawaiian Sativa and Humboldt Indica.") Does this call for another bailout to save the suffering back-alley marijuana industry? Not quite. But a legalization of it would certainly cut the crap out of the bureacratic system in which obtaining a medical marijuana license through deceit. Save everyone the trouble and just let it go, feds.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1934996-2,00.html
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