My view on Legalization of Marijuana

...is really a matter of location.

For example, I am against the legalization of marijuana in the US. I think it's because I would not want the person whose mandate is to rule the world to be elected by stoned voters. Imagine getting stoned on election day, who would you vote for? It would probably be the candidate with the nicest haircut or the largest head.. or the candidate who looks like a nutella-spread toast with strawberry strips.. or canned me7shi malfouf with laban... (yummm) And seriously, american voters are already too blinded by consumption and watching TV to be worried about real issues; adding dopamine to the equation would just be the end of democratic change*. On the other hand, in terms of legalizing marijuana cultivation, doing so in the US would definitely result in the advent of a genetically-modified species of tasteless bug-resistant male-female cannabis plant that would economically wipe out all diversity in the field (sic).

Luckily in lebanon we don't have these problems. Not because our weed is of lesser quality (quite the contrary). But because, anyway, our votes barely count and the elected officials rarely make any difference, if at all. Also, legalizing marijuana cultivation would finally be daring a realistic solution to the lingering crisis in the primary sector, generating (highly needed) millions of dollars in tax revenues, and establishing the most efficient way to rid the bekaa plain of occasional violence and para-military and para-resistance weapons. It would also spare us the occasional sprawl of badly written articles making the boring afp-nytimes-tayyar.org circuit.

I guess the whole point of this argument is that: when i shout "Legalize it", please read the fine print.

* We, here at libanismes, strongly believe that maintaining a healthy democracy requires directing enough amounts of anger towards the right cause.