The disproportionate interest in legalization of medical marijuana on Digg is not due to any medical benefits. The development of a drug that decouples the medical effects from the high has shattered the pretense of righteousness that the adherents on Digg were previously clinging to. Take a look at the comments:

Digg – Cannabis like drug dims pain without the high.

Vs. a typical sort of article you’d see on Digg from last year:

Digg – Medical Marijuana User Commits Suicide After Long Being Denied Its Use.

I’m not here to engage in this debate (although it’s pretty predictable to see where someone who has lived a straight-edge lifestyle would fall), but I find hiding behind some flimsy pretense very hypocritical regardless of your position.

I can already see what the comments are going to look like, so I’m disabling them on this post.