Arizona lawmakers are continuing work on a bill to reform medical cannabis laws.
Parents of autistic children argued that medical pot has benefited their kids and thus should be added to the conditions of eligibility for low-cost medicinal cannabis cards.
I have no beef with them or the lawmakers pushing through reforms. I have a beef with us, the people of Arizona.
Why do we keep living this fiction that medical marijuana is real? That the stuff bought at the dispensaries can be used to legitimately treat disease?
The big lie Arizona keeps telling itself
Medical marijuana is the lie that led Arizonans in 2020 to pass Proposition 207 to legalize recreational weed – the party pot.
It was the camel’s nose that got under the tent in 2010 and began the further decriminalization of a favorite, and what seemed at the time fairly benign, street drug.
Arizona bill:Would cut price of medical cannabis cards by $100
Today the camel is fully in the tent where we fan it with palm fronds and feed it grapes.
Lots of Americans wanted to legalize marijuana. They were sick of the drug wars and the bottomless pit of spending on police raids and prison housing. Sick of the bloody interdictions and all the nonviolent junkies in jail.
Both sides fought to legalize pot
What began as a liberal enterprise to end the Nixon War on Drugs had in the end the support of conservatives like William F. Buckley, Barry Goldwater and Pat Robertson.
Thus, legalization was a bipartisan project. We all own it. And any…