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Home 🌿 Recreational Marijuana News 🌿 Melissa Etheridge Says Cannabis Users Should 'Come Out' To Spur Legalisation 🌿Melissa Etheridge Says Cannabis Users Should 'Come Out' To Spur Legalisation
Venerated singer-songwriter, renowned equal rights and cannabis legalisation activist, and Byron Bay Bluesfest 2016 drawcard Melissa Etheridge says that she believes users of the Devil's lettuce should start to 'come out' in order to better spur on normalisation and decriminalisation processes.
Having spent more than 20 years as a vocal supporter of gay rights — and a significant period as an advocate for legalisation, notably while she was battling breast cancer mid-last decade — Etheridge says that she sees surface similarities in the transition of social attitudes towards non-heterosexuality and marijuana use (without, obviously, actually equating the two issues in terms of severity, before anyone gets upset).
"It's funny — being in the gay rights movement for over 20 years and seeing it go from such a place of 'no way' and 'impossible' and it just being this awful thing to, 'Wait a minute, this is human rights,' and really have people change — and genuinely change, coming up and...
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