Nobody ever seems to notice the US collapsed one year after the democrats took over Congress, because there was a president who “worked with them.” And began to recover only after republicans took the House.
I don’t know what point Stantis is trying to make here. Tobacco is a proven deadly danger to public health. Meanwhile marajuana’s harmful effects are negligible, even compared to the very legal toxin known as alcohol. Furthermore, the heavy crackdown campaign against tobacco has been one of the biggest success stories in the recent history of public policy. Literally millions of lives have been saved, with smoking rates down from highs of about 60% of adults to less than 20% today.
Conservatives don’t like such crackdowns, believing that the libertarian principle trumps any public health benefits of same——i.e., the ends don’t justify the means. Liberals simply do not agree, and that’s the impasse. But the connection Stantis is trying to draw here is too strained to be credible.
If Stantis is seriously implying that the rush to legalize weed is to produce a nation full of blissed-out zombies the government can manipulate as it pleases, he’s much more of a fringe kook than he usually lets on. I’m choosing to pretend I didn’t read this one.
danielmkimmel about 10 years ago
“Mad rush?” In what alternate universe is that happening?
jbmlaw01 about 10 years ago
Nobody ever seems to notice the US collapsed one year after the democrats took over Congress, because there was a president who “worked with them.” And began to recover only after republicans took the House.
nerdhoof about 10 years ago
Right wingers claim that Bush wasn’t responsible for the economic meltdown, yet they still blame Obama.
dennislyle about 10 years ago
Brave New World has finally arrived. Only it’s called “pot” instead of “somma”.
JLG Premium Member about 10 years ago
I don’t know what point Stantis is trying to make here. Tobacco is a proven deadly danger to public health. Meanwhile marajuana’s harmful effects are negligible, even compared to the very legal toxin known as alcohol. Furthermore, the heavy crackdown campaign against tobacco has been one of the biggest success stories in the recent history of public policy. Literally millions of lives have been saved, with smoking rates down from highs of about 60% of adults to less than 20% today.
Conservatives don’t like such crackdowns, believing that the libertarian principle trumps any public health benefits of same——i.e., the ends don’t justify the means. Liberals simply do not agree, and that’s the impasse. But the connection Stantis is trying to draw here is too strained to be credible.
If Stantis is seriously implying that the rush to legalize weed is to produce a nation full of blissed-out zombies the government can manipulate as it pleases, he’s much more of a fringe kook than he usually lets on. I’m choosing to pretend I didn’t read this one.
Captain Colorado about 10 years ago
I am NOT proud of my state for legalizing marijuana.