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Sanjay Gupta comes around
Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2013 1:12 pm
by bentech
its a sign that the money is coming around and we are going to be further pushed out
someone wrote an article taking him apart for being a suck up yes man in the last couple months...
Sanjay Gupta comes around
Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2013 1:37 pm
by Mud Boy
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Sanjay Gupta comes around
Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2013 8:07 pm
by Giggles
lets hope this is the beginning of a lot more doctors and patients accepting the good weed.
Sanjay Gupta comes around
Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2013 8:35 pm
by Mud Boy
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Sanjay Gupta comes around
Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2013 9:17 pm
by bentech
you hear the explaination???
" i actually did some research this time... rather than just repeat what the dea told me that id choosen to believe implicitly before when i only reported WHAT I WAS TOLD TO SAY"
this should be a story about the blight of supposed "reporters" who litter the airwaves and are nothing but stenographers for the rich and powerful
Sanjay Gupta comes around
Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2013 8:23 am
by Mud Boy
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Sanjay Gupta comes around
Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2013 10:02 am
by twilson
Jesús Malverde wrote:The powerful by and large don't really give two shits one way another about cannabis laws, just as they don't about gay marriage. Sure they've been useful to persecute specific demographics and divide the working classes, like racism and homophobia have, but at the end of the day, CCA aside, it doesn't appreciably affect their income streams one way or the other. It is still a political problem though as it may affect the electability of their stooges in elected office-- either by embarrassing them after being ordered to spout anti-scientific nonsense so long their credibility is inextricably tied to the nonsense, or past the tipping point we balance on where continuing down the prohibitionist path becomes a political liability for the political class and one wing of the uniparty, given the OK by the money shovelers, eventually flips on the issue.
You have to feed the serf classes something and legalized pot and gay marriage are good ones to cave on--albeit as slowly and grudgingly as humanly possible since the next ask may not be so painless--because they don't threaten the income streams of Wall St., military contractors, big energy, big pharma and the rest of the aristocracy's cash cows.
This really is a important point. Hedges has talked about the way the phony Dems have used some of these bullshit issues to abandon the working class while still looking like they are watching out for the little guy. Keep your eye on the ball.
The last issue the forces of darkness are going to give up on is a fair distribution of wealth.
The class war is the main issue in life. The oligarchs will let people marry animals and pass out drugs for free before they will agree to a significant redistribution of wealth
Sanjay Gupta comes around
Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2013 12:27 pm
by Mud Boy
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Sanjay Gupta comes around
Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2013 2:38 pm
by twilson
Mud Boy wrote:WTF does that ^^^ have to do with a doctor endorsing medical marijuana?
Oh i see the thread police are here.
Is this going on my permanent record officer ?
I'm not saying Sanjays about face isn't good news.
I'm simply trying to point out the hierarchy of issue importance.
Sanjay Gupta comes around
Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2013 2:46 pm
by Jesús Malverde
These things don't happen in a vacuum. There is a cultural context in play, and that context has real political implications. The Federal government's--and the mainstream media's-- level of tolerance towards MMJ and recreational cannabis in states is very much affected by these cultural and political considerations. The fact that the oligarchical class doesn't really have a dog in that fight should help us get rational reform done. Any reforms have to pass the gatekeepers that control the government before they can happen.