[Editor's note: Please take the anti-government, the country is heading Nazism, let's storm the barricades with pitchforks rant somewhere else.

The government is the people.

Do the people elect pro-cannabis reform candidates? Unfortunately, they largely do not. However, that does not mean that government is the failure.

You're incorrect that the government does not reform cannabis laws. While not to the entire satisfaction of NORML, state governments in NM, RI, NV and VT have recently passed pro-reform legislation into law.

All cannabis law reform has been, is and must be peaceful in nature. No violence please.

When the citizens of the US stop electing policymakers who support cannabis prohibition is most likely the time (and impetus needed) when government changes antiquated laws.]

There are two important rules the voters must remember if they want to avoid the type of government they have in Washington today. First: the guy with the massive war chest is always owned by the money barons. Don’t vote for him or her—ever. Whether you are a Democrat, a Republican or an independent; or whether you a liberal, a moderate or a conservative, that candidate’s agenda is already carved in stone by the bankers, industrialists and barons of business who bought him.

Did you think people donate money to candidates because they’re patriots? They donate money because they’re greedy…and they expect more money in return—your money! Second, regardless what the independent candidates says, or the emerging third party advocates say, or how much sense it makes, we have a two party system. That means that one of the two primary party candidates is always going to win: the Democrat or the Republican. There have only been two third party candidates in the 20th century who received double digit percentages of the popular vote.

No third party candidate (or rather, 99.999% of them) have never won, nor can they. The way the electoral system was set up makes it impossible for third party candidates to win because the laws were slanted against them. It is, after all, a two-party system.

Third party candidates are not in the race to win the election. They’re in the race to win matching funds. And it takes 5% of the vote to get matching funds. No conservative has ever won matching funds. (Don’t be confused by Pat Buchanan who got matching funds when he won the Reform Party nomination. The funds he got were actually earned by Ross Perot.)

Since 1864 our election laws have been structured to give all of the election advantages to the two major parties in order to guarantee that only one of those two candidates can, and will, prevail on election day. The candidate who wins every multi-candidate race is always bought and paid for by party bosses regardless if he calls himself a Democrat, a Republican or an Independent. The third party candidates who calls himself a Progressive, an independent, a Constitutionalist or a Libertarian never wins because third party candidates are the designated spoilers who are allowed to run only to drain votes from the candidate the party bosses do not want elected.

[Russ responds: Coke/Pepsi. McDonald's/Burger King. Walmart/Target. Mac/PC. Sometimes it seems like everywhere you look in America there is a duopoly at work.

For some interesting reading about how we could solve the Republican / Democrat / no third party dilemma, check out http://rangevoting.org/