New Scientist Breaking News – Cannabis may soothe inflamed bowels

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Warning – Semi Off-topic follows –

That “evil” weed just keeps on being useful, doesn’t it?

Now if the government (of the people, by the people, and for the people? pardon me while I puke…) would wake up and quit spending billions of dollars a year “fighting” the “war on drugs” and building more prisons to house their victims.

Hard drug use is a self-correcting problem, unlike the “war” which is a self-perpetuating problem, and one that has put millions of otherwise law abiding people in jail and has driven many, if not most, hardcore drug users to a life of crime to support their habits.

My personal belief is that the “war on drugs” is also directly responsible for the spread of aids (and the millions of resulting deaths) among those that use needles, simply by restricting the availability to the point that dirty one-shots get used many times by many folks.

Education eradicates – Incarceration perpetuates…