•1978: Keith Stroup, Founder NORML:
“We are trying to get marijuana reclassified medically. If we do that, (we’ll do it in at least 20 states this year for chemotherapy patients) we’ll be using the issue as a red herring to give marijuana a good name.”
Key words keep coming to my mind:
Chicanery
Charlatan
Carpet Baggging
I love words. And voters need a vocabulary lesson:
CHICANERY
chi·can·er·y
/SHiˈkānərē/
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Noun
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CHARLATAN
A charlatan (also called swindler or mountebank) is a person practicing quackery or some similar confidence trick in order to obtain money, fame or other advantages via some form of pretense or deception.
CARPET BAGGER
car·pet·bag·ger
Pronunciation: \-ˌba-gər\
Function: noun
Etymology: from their carrying all their belongings in carpetbags
Date: 1868
1 : a Northerner in the South after the American Civil War usually seeking private gain under the reconstruction governments
2 : outsider; especially : a nonresident or new resident who seeks private gain from an area often by meddling in its business or politics
— car·pet·bag·gery \-ˌba-g(ə-)rē\noun
These are old tricks. Is your state smarter than this?