Recently, I followed Kevin Sabet, aka “the quarterback of the
anti-legalization movement,” as he earned $21,000 touring Oregon to
frighten our rural voters into opposing Measure 91, our legalization
initiative. Two of his go-to scare lines are the tale of Levi Thamba,
the 19-year-old exchange student who ate an entire marijuana-infused
cookie and leaped to his death from a hotel balcony, and Maureen Dowd,
the liberal New York Times columnist who was couch-locked by a marijuana-infused chocolate bar.
“The response of the industry,” claims Sabet, “was to say, ‘oh, see,
she was supposed to cut that chocolate bar into 16 pieces and just eat
one of them.’ Folks, I don’t know about how you eat chocolate, but
that’s not how I would eat it!” (Yes, Kevin, that’s readily apparent by your expanding waistline.)
Former NORML Director Richard Cowan’s “Iron Law of Prohibition” states
that the more strictly a prohibition is enforced, the more potent the
drug becomes. During Alcohol Prohibition, a smuggler had a choice: fill
the trunk of the Studebaker with cases of beer or cases of whiskey.
Getting busted with either meant prison, so why not smuggle the whiskey
that earns more profit? Once Prohibition was lifted, the first
intoxicating liquors allowed by law were lower-proof beer and wine. The
harder stuff then slowly became legal again, too.
read more at (High Times)
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