Getting a sensible new law into the books is an extremely difficult task. But it's lightning compared with getting sensible changes to your great-grandfather's laws still on the books "because that's how we've always done it".
Case in point. Snails and turtles are speed merchants alongside majority-supported and logical changes to edge the cannabis plant out of the lane with opioids, speed and prison sentences, and into the corridor where thinking people reside.
It's interesting to compare the United States and Thailand on marijuana. On drug laws, enforcement and old-fashioned, stubborn resistance to change, Thailand and the US are pretty much identical. So on the same day last week that a Nida Poll reported a majority of Thais in favour of legalising medical marijuana, the US federal government's anti-drug enforcers effectively did the same.
