More than two years after the New Jersey Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act became law, patients in the state are still waiting for relief as cities and towns whine about where dispensaries are going to be placed.
Towns like Maple Shade and Camden have balked at the placing of cultivation and/or distribution centers in their area, and while local control is best when it comes to government, this type of discrimination would not be tolerated with any other medicinal substance.
Imagine if a town wouldn’t allow any pharmacies to operate. Pharmacies dispense some of the deadliest drugs known to man, yet they are allowed to operate anywhere.
But those who wish to grow and distribute a non-toxic plant are treated like they want to build a whorehouse next to an elementary school.
Two things account for this: 1) the stigma that has been built around cannabis due to 75 years of propaganda and 2) the general stupidity of the average person who believes everything they see and hear on TV.
For instance, the cable news channel MSNBC is watched by a fraction of 1% of the population, yet I know people who will hear someone say something on MSNBC and will act like it’s the Lord’s gospel even though there are no facts to back up what they said.
The sad fact is that most people are too intellectually lazy to look into things for themselves. They’d rather watch the Daily Show and act like they know something about current events and the history of this country when all they really know for sure is that Jon Stewart’s career has peaked and it’s all downhill from here.
But in the end we cannot blame stupid people for being stupid; we can only blame ourselves – those who know better – for not educating others more effectively.
Spread the information you find on sites like the420times.com with everyone on all your social networks. Only information will stop the blatant discrimination that affects medical cannabis patients across the country, and only we can make sure that information gets out to where the brainwashed masses reside.
Truth is power. Spread the truth.
- Joe Klare
And be sure to check out our Open Letter on Behalf of 30 Million Cannabis Users and join us in our fight!
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