![]() ROSENTHAL: -and a couple of other people that I run into at parties all over the place and everybody admires, blah, blah, blah. I will take that aboard, that's a very good thought. ROSENTHAL: And I think that is really something that you and the President ought to be doing. ROSENTHAL: Well, that's right, but how do we - I mean, as a society and the people who are anti-drugs - make it socially unacceptable not to smoke pot but, but to give money to these causes?. It's socially unacceptable somehow for people to use their money in that way. ROSENTHAL: -who are fed, and that's what made Soros. So how to do this except by pounding at them I don't know. ROSENTHAL: We've got to get some way also to make it socially unacceptable. You know the other thing we gotta say is, Do we want to promote a drugged, stoned America? Or do we want to promote one that's involved in athletics and academic achievement and sensitivity to other people and their problems? Or do we want to do Timothy O'Leary? ROSENTHAL: And what we've got to do, I mean, not we, but all of us, is convince people of the connection between the California initiative, which they still see as a pot initiative, and the 100,000 dead. See Marijuana Prohibition, The Constitutional Crisis And The Assault On Democracy Rosenthal was panicked by the success of Prop 215, which “legalized” medical marijuana in California. Rosenthal, the former editorial page editor of the New York Times, who was a rabid prohibitionist, and General Barry McCaffrey, then Clinton’s Drug Czar, which was recorded by McCaffrey. Pardon the sarcasm.Īnother version of the argument that requires conformity (unity?) was common at the height of the Drug War was the insistence that we were either for or against “Drugs”, as defined by the prohibitionists.Ī frightening example of this was demonstrated in a 1996 conversation between A. ![]() ![]() Speaking of dogs, I recently saw a complaint from a nark in a state that had just legalized marijuana wondering what to do with their dogs that had been trained to sniff out marijuana! Fortunately, dogs, unlike most narks, can be retrained. See The Logical Fallacies Of Marijuana Prohibition And What The Doctor Says… Of course, alcohol and tobacco really are “drugs”, but they are still generally identified separately as in “alcohol AND drugs”, like dogs and cats. A “drug” is a “drug”, except when it isn’t. The classic example of the “False Dilemma” is all too common these days: “You’re either with us or against us.”įor opponents of the Drug War, this problem was (and often still is) how to explain that someone could be in favor of “legalizing” marijuana, but not meth.
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