Yiayia Online

Yesterday I wrote an opinion comment that marijuana should be legalized.  I'm certainly not alone in thinking that.  Paul Armentano is the deputy director of NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) and the NORML Foundation. He is the coauthor of Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink?  Click here to hear his thoughts on how to end the deadly drug war in Mexico. 

He writes:  "Albert Einstein declared, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” He wasn’t describing the federal government’s nearly century-long war on drugs but he might as well have been.."

Why shouldn't the American Government benefit from these sales rather than the cartels and the government employees on the take...quite likely there are many playing both sides.

On the Internet, click here, there are instructions on how to grow marijuana hydroponically.  Naturally, since it is available to one and all, there is a disclaimer that the instructions are not to be used anywhere that it cannot be legally grown.  It follows that anyone who would break the law and buy and use illegal marijuana would certainly be honest enough not to violate that disclaimer, right?

Now really, America, how long will this farce be allowed to continue while the cartel gets richer than the Mexican government, and stronger than its army?  Do we really have our priorities right when more Americans die fighting the cartels over something as ridiculous as killing our people to try to prevent people from legally gaining that which they have had no problem obtaining illegally?  Wake up America!  Get your heads out of the sand before it is too late.