Really, Dave Neese? You thought we needed “‘Reefer Madness,’ updated” (The Trentonian, 7/15/23)?
Madness is best dealt with by minimizing its impact and severity, not trying to cause a resurgence in it.
But Mr. Neese’s column indicates reefer madness will never die. There is too much money involved in marijuana prohibition, and some people simply refuse to accept any evidence that marijuana is a benign and relatively harmless substance.
The federal bureaucrats at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) are afraid to admit they’ve been perpetrating a fraud on the American public for decades. Much of their funding depends on demonizing marijuana and blocking research into its medical benefits.
If Mr. Neese still believes medical marijuana is a scam, after 38 states recognize marijuana’s medical attributes, no amount of science or logic is going to convince him otherwise. He, along with the DEA, suffers from the fixed, false belief–the delusion–that marijuana is not medicine.