The Case Against Marijuana Legalization

THE CASE AGAINST MARIJUNA LEGALIZATION
And why it’ll never happen anyway


Proponents of Marijuana legalization base their case on the argument that if legalized, the taxes from Marijuana sales would provide a source of tax revenue that would help cure the world’s economic problems.
There’s really only two major flaws in that theory.
The first is that while such revenue would doubtless be considerable, it’s the nadir of naiveté to think that any of it would be put to making life better for The Little Guy. Indeed, knowing what we do about governments, it is far more realistic to expect that any additional monies would be used to invade countries who present a threat to whatever twisted global plan they’re engaged in (all in the name of bringing Prosperity and Democracy to these benighted people of course) and to buy more and better-armed police to secure the home front against the possibility of domestic unrest. Remember, this is government we’re discussing – does anyone truly think that government, who cheerfully leave citizens to starve and freeze on the streets while spending billions on “rescuing’ Afghanis and Iranians, would actually view a sudden increase in available money as a chance to ease the financial burdens of the common folk? If so, you may as well stop reading right here.
Secondly, anyone who’s considered the field of economics with an open mind unclouded by media can come to no other conclusion than that the last thing any government would want is for any populace to be financially comfortable. Economics is the primary weapon in the arsenal of Control and as such is not something any government is likely to relinquish. One need seek no more obvious proof of this than the currant situation in America where eight years of deliberately eroded human rights, or more accurately “Freedom”, was forgotten in the economic meltdown coinciding with the – let us add the word “apparent” if only to be fair – change of power. It would be a cause of bewilderment to me that so few found it at least suspicious that none of the myriad bean-counters who’s sole purpose in life is to study economic trends were able to see this coming were it not for the simple fact that when the boat is sinking the passengers are too busy bailing to ask who made the hole – or why. The equation is patently simple: In order to survive, one needs money and government is the only source of money ergo one will not defy authority lest one be denied the money necessary to survive. You will endure your job, vote for the person who makes the most promising promises, obey the rules, and generally keep your nose clean.
Money is not power, as popularly believed. The control of money is power.

Given these facts, the idea that the taxes from legalized Marijuana would somehow benefit the huddled masses is a whole new level of specious.

Even were it true and even were not against the self-interest of government to relieve financial burdens, there’s no chance that Marijuana would be made available to the general population for no other reason than because it is a psychotropic. While the official propaganda insists that Marijuana makes users stupid, the opposite is the actuality. Indeed if Marijuana had the capacity to decrease intellectual activity, joints would be mandatorily passed out in schools immediately after the Pledge Of Allegiance. Government depends on the average citizen be kept in a state of bovine complacency, following the herd even though the inevitable end of the journey is the abattoir.
Even the seemingly innocuous propensity of Marijuana to relieve stress would be sufficient reason for any government (assuming that at this point in history there is more than one – a subject for later conjecture) to enforce its prohibition. Government has, as is clear to anyone who studies the pattern, gone to considerable lengths to assure that that a high stress level is maintained among the population. It is a psychological fact that people under stress revert to simple and repetitive thinking which is precisely the mental state government wants to maintain as the norm. People in this condition do not challenge authority, and government, being an authoritarian system, will not easily tolerate anything apt to upset that particular apple-cart, and Marijuana would most assuredly do just that.
The primary effect of Marijuana is to stimulate the right hemisphere of the brain. This is where the instinctive, artistic, intuitive functions of the brain dwell, doing their best to balance the analytical, logical, and pragmatic functions of the left brain hemisphere. This is accepted scientific fact. We need only look back to as recently as the Psychedelic Renaissance of the 1960’s to see clearly why no authoritarian system will ever risk the slightest possibility of a recurrence of psychotropically fueled social change and despite its most strident and constant efforts to diminish the positive aspects of Marijuana use that possibility is simply far to great a risk for any government to take.

Legalization advocates paint a picture of a the average citizen coming home from a hard day at work and relaxing with a quiet joint before dinner, much the way the average citizen now uses alcohol. Government knows better. Alcohol is a neuro-depressant whereas Marijuana is a neuro-stimulant. Said worker, on booze, will watch the evening news and feel anger, but a helpless anger with no resolution. Potheads have a different take on media. A well-known comedienne once suggested that Reagan was elected because people were stoned when they voted. More actually, it is no coincidence that the “war on drugs” began during his tenure, since anyone who watched, while in a mentally accelerated state, that prune-faced greasy-haired clown reading clichéd platitudes from a teleprompter saw something quite other than a “great communicator” and may have gone on to speculate that putting a has-been third-rate actor into the White House might just be an indication that the office of president was nothing more than that of a front-man. This is precisely the sort of mental gymnastics that cause authoritarians to wake from troubled sleep in a cold sweat.
Reality is perception and the control of perception is the control of reality, that Holy Grail of the quest for power.

Marijuana does offer a solution to the problems of personal poverty but not, as we’ve hopefully seen, through legalization and taxation. In fact it is quite the opposite. Deprohibitization – not legalization or decriminalization or any other bureaucratic euphemisms – would enable those in need of extra cash to grow twenty or thirty plants in the basement and thereby augment their income. This would also solve the problem of the large-scale, violent, and criminal enterprises that exist solely due to the illegality of Marijuana. Pot grown in a free market environment would effectively eliminate their customer base and force them out of business. Unfortunately this would not please the government who depend on media reports of violent crime to justify the justify the ever-increasing diminishing of personal rights and the subsequent popularity and power of police. One needn’t be High to see that the only way to bring about a global police state is to present the police as the only hope of security in an increasingly dangerous world – but it helps.
No, kiddies, Marijuana will never be made legal and taxed. It may someday be decriminalized, at least to some degree, since this would allow for popularly acceptable punishment for its use as well as diminishing its outlaw appeal, but legalization? You’ll hear a politician tell the truth and a pope say he might be wrong before that ever happens.
But that’s really for the best because if you look at clearly, there is only one logical way that the millions of PotHeads on this planet are ever going to set them themselves free of the threat of legal repercussions for doing that which they have every natural born right to do – to control their own consciousness without fear of authoritarian interference – and that is to en mass demand that there be given a sensible, logical reason for the prohibition of a substance that is universally recognized to be at worst harmless and at best beneficial or immediately repeal the legislation making it a crime.
If every PotHead on the planet was to adopt this stance, demanding that government supply a clear and logical reason for the prohibition of Marijuana or its immediate termination one can but wonder what the results would be. Obviously no such answer would be forthcoming, since there is none. What would government do? Only two options seem probable. Acquiesce to the demand of millions of citizens or reveal its true nature by announcing it has no interest in what the public wants.
Personally I think be worth the doing just for the pure fun of seeing what happens.