Monday, November 29

Supreme Court goes to pot.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a medical marijuana case today. The Justice Department believes that federal authority trumps all, even doctors, patients, quality of life and state rights. Never mind that we are all endowed by our Creator with such inalienable rights as Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness - federal authority trumps this.
Other arguments come from Antidrug groups, who believe that this would increase the number of people (who need their thinking done for them, and have no inalienable rights) who use it recreationally. I hate people like this. They must live in a box, because it is easier to get marijuana than it is to get a prescription for painkillers.
The only logical alternative is to legalize it and tax the crap out of it, for in the wise wise words of Abraham Lincoln:
"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."

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