The High Priest of Medical Marijuana

Cully Stimson / October 08, 2010

If you ever wondered about some of the people behind the marijuana legalization movement, you need not look any further than Ed Rosenthal and Richard Cowan to see how disingenuous arguments are used to advance a broader agenda.

Rosenthal (former editor of High Times Magazine) and Cowan (former Director of NORML — the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) realized a long time ago that in order to achieve full legalization of marijuana throughout the United States, they would have to invent a “scam” (their words) to get people to see marijuana in a whole new light.  That “scam” was the passage of “medical marijuana” laws in as many states as possible.

Don’t believe me? Then watch this video (above) where they say exactly that. (more…)