BLP (Backward-Looking People) is a term coined by
Dr. Melamade to describe the self-styled members of a militantly religious, nameless resistance he and his friends encountered during his campaigns for the legalisation of cannabis. They are thus (Pseudo) adults who speak against
marijuana. Although one cannot say this of Anslinger himself (who might have been misinformed or in a catch-
22) -- BLPs
today are the intellectually dead people, who do not have a habit of thinking,
don'
t have the habit of google searching to improve their worldview, i.e. who do not make lakatosian research programs in their minds, that is to say, do not spontaneously (and cannot easily) engage in (nonlinear) thinking*. It is a terror to imagine that our political systems are so
weak that we could be led by such people, but there are examples.
"Before going to the court to testify against the
weed smokers, the BLPs were
seen jumping with glee as they came out of the head
office of the pharmaceutical company."