I find it odd that she was given Medicinal use of pot when she is Bipolar, because as I have understood for some time, marijuana makes symptoms of psychosis much, much worse, and regular use for anyone who experiences Bipolar, Depression, Mania and the like can see their disease transform into full-blown Schizophrenia from pot use. Is that not true and I just fell for some anti-pot propaganda? This was from several medical reports published sometime in the last 5-10 years.

It's really extremely difficult to do good pro-pot propaganda (at least, to reach those not already converted), and this is one of the best efforts I've ever seen.

>> ^dirtythirtyix:
I'm glad they're having this debate though...


It's not a debate though. On one side you have the facts presented by educated advocates who rationally explain why the other side is wrong, on the other you have people trying desperately to maintain their out dated system by continuing to spew old lies.

In this era of (near)instant information I would love to see these debates go like this, pro side presents facts, con side presents lies, pro shows examples exposing con advocate as lying dickcheese, moderator terminates feed of con side weasel and continues to interview pro advocate. Because sadly, without proof of blatant deception and presentation of factual information, there will remain people who watch these interviews and come away thinking that people like Walters were correct in their assumptions because of their positions on the issue. When in fact they're just disingenuous assholes trying to force their puritanical views on the rest of the population.

Personally I think that the weed advocates should focus on combating the anti-pot propaganda that chokes our media. A good start would be remaking every anti-pot commercial based in reality, with drunks running over the little kid on the bike, etc.

It's ridiculous that a substance with such mild effects as pot remains illegal when alcohol continues to be a source for so much violence and death. Has anyone ever heard of a domestic violence situation where a person toked up and then proceeded to beat their spouse because of a minor error like burning a steak?