Let's talk about drugs

Panda speculates: Hi guy! [GONZOJOURNALISM]It is so illogical that there must be a less obvious reason. I think William Seward Burroughs , author of the incomparable Naked Lunch, may have been on the right track (in his case it was the issue of Heroin) that the Government is IN ON THE DEAL. Like Sherlock Holmes advises, when you systematically eliminate all the more likely explanations, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Why would these very same people that own & run such a system of illegal trafficking and thuggery and unabated murder that has done so much for them suddenly decide to throw it all away???You make marijuana legal and tax it like cigarettes and you lose your market share - now you have to throw your cash received into the tax system with all of its bullshit. Shit - now some of your hard-earned shekels might wind up in a highway improvement project in Boston and land in their money-grubbing hands. The few that run the system and are well ensconced in the government power niches would have too much to lose. You might as well ask them to give up the holy oil.There is a possibility that they are merely still waiting for Monsanto (or equivalent assholes) to secure a molecular DNA patent on a genetically modified marijuana for the government to use and get legislation passed that:1) Only permits Monsanto's patented strain of Cannabis sativa to be sold, and2) heavily fines, jails or even allows corporate security forces to kill outright, on sight, any citizens who even accidentally grow the corporate patented form, despite it blowing in the wind over the heavily electrified, barb-wire fences patrolled by stealth black helicopters overseeing the Monsanto Corporation's millions of acres, and3) makes it a High Crime of Treason to organize or promote demonstrations against Monsanto.I can see Dick Cheney, no doubt even more of a major stockholder and board member by then, but now on a high-tech expensive life support system provided by the otherwise bankrupt and fraudulent health care system for Federal politicians, enthusiastically applauding this concept through his voice synthesizer "I've always been in favor of legalizing it. I'm so fortunate to see it happen in my own lifetime."Another observation from Sherlock Holmes that is applicable is from The Adventure of the Silver Blaze. Sherlock tells Scotland Yard to remember the curious incident of the barking dog.There was no barking dog - because it was an inside job. [/GONZOJOURNALISM]

WOW.... okay I inadvertantly deleted my first reply*...it went something like this: Sherlock Holmes, via his creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, was using clear logic in the episode, which I think was "The Adventure of The Yellow Face", if memory serves me well. Sherlock was a fictional clinical objective dude who could cut through strangeness. You have a lot of nerve to belittle his conclusion in the adventure. This is more like a testament to the way that the hard, cold, objective evidence can lead you to narrow things down to a very unusual result. Sorry! My bad. I am unfortunately a major fan of Hunter S. Thompson* Percy? make all Replies open a new window? Pretty pretty please? And have the PEEK option as well a click, since "Reply with Quote" has been mercifully discontinued, if I understand the difficulties.