Why Are Top Political Leaders From Both Parties So Out-Of-Touch With The Public’s Demand For Marijuana Law Reform?
‘Why does marijuana prohibition continue despite its obvious failings?’NORML via digg 27.Jan.09Regrettably, one need only point to this single, but poignant example, demonstrated by this Pelosi-Boehner cannabis conundrum: Leaders who will not lead.
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Okay, but then why won't those leaders lead?
If this is right, the majority of voters favor one thing yet their leaders keep going the other way - but it's right in line with everything else they're doing.
2006 elections, out of Iraq, the groundswell hit Washington like a tsunami, yet the leaders elected to end the Iraq occupation didn't. Why?
Same reason as this. Because the leaders are responding to the dictates of the same essentially invisible forces in both cases, and for the same reasons. Extortion, blackmail, coercion.
Marijuana is big business as long as it's kept illegal, really big business generating lots and lots of money. Demand is no pun intended very high, supply is no problem, and the bottleneck created by illegality is immensely lucrative for those controlling it.
Who runs the international drug trade?
Who wanted Iraq broken in the dust?
