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Wednesday, 28 October 2009 00:24 |
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Apparently, conservative columnist and pundit George Will knows a little something about pot. On This Week with George Stephanopoulos, he said, "Marijuana's getting much better" and "we're probably in the process of legalizing marijuana."
Stephanopoulos sparked a spirited discussion when he brought up the White House memo de-emphasizing federal prosecution of medical-marijuana dispensaries and patients.
Will jumped right in, channeling William Buckley (another famous conservative who embraced pot): "In California, marijuana is essentially legalized. We have legalized gambling in this country over two generations. It used to be considered a sin and a crime. With no national debate, and no decision moment, we just did it. We legalized prostitution as anyone who opens a telephone book and looks under 'escort' can tell. And we're probably in the process now of legalizing marijuana."
He added like a seasoned pot pro that "marijuana is getting much better. They're growing it and making it better in the sense that the psychoactive ingredient is much stronger than it used to be."
Will put an exclamation on his point, concluding, "If you really want to go after the Mexican cartels, you'd legalize marijuana."
Other panelists offered the following opinions:
• John Podesta: "We won't see a full legalization of marijuana until somebody figures out that if you tax it maybe your can pay for health care."
• Al Hunt: "Times are a-changing."
• Laura Ingraham: "Does this mean that brownies are going to be for sale at CVS and Walgreens?"
Watch This Week here
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The drug czar’s Rx for prison fodder costs dearly, as life is flushed down expensive tubes. My shaman’s second opinion is that psychoactive plants are God’s gift. Behold, it’s all good. When Eve ate the apple, she knew a good apple, and an evil prohibition. Canadian Marc Emery sold seeds that enable American farmers to outcompete cartels with local herb. The hero is being extradited to prison for the crime of reducing U.S. demand for Mexican pot.
Only on the authority of a clause about interstate commerce does the CSA (Controlled Substances Act of 1970) reincarnate Al Capone, endanger homeland security, and throw good money after bad. Administration fiscal policy burns tax dollars to root out the number-one cash crop in the land, instead of taxing sales. Society rejected the plague of prohibition, but it mutated. Apparently, SWAT teams don’t need no stinking amendment.
Nixon passed the CSA on the false assurance that the Schafer Commission would later justify criminalizing his enemies. No amendments can assure due process under an anti-science law without due process itself. Psychology hailed the breakthrough potential of LSD, until the CSA shut down research, and pronounced that marijuana has no medical use, period. Drug juries exclude bleeding hearts.
The RFRA (Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993) allows Native American Church members to eat peyote, which functions like LSD. Americans shouldn’t need a specific church membership or an act of Congress to obtain their birthright freedom of religion. John Doe’s free exercise of religious liberty may include entheogen sacraments to mediate communion with his maker.
Freedom of speech presupposes freedom of thought. The Constitution doesn’t enumerate any governmental power to embargo diverse states of mind. How and when did government usurp this power to coerce conformity? The Mayflower sailed to escape coerced conformity. Legislators who would limit cognitive liberty lack jurisdiction.
Common-law must hold that adults are the legal owners of their own bodies. The Founding Fathers undersigned that the right to the pursuit of happiness is inalienable. Socrates said to know your self. Mortal lawmakers should not presume to thwart the intelligent design that molecular keys unlock spiritual doors. Persons who appreciate their own free choice of path in life should tolerate seekers’ self-exploration.
It’s time to correct this injustice.
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