| Here is how you win the War on Drugs: Legalize drugs, and unleash into drug culture wave after wave of middle aged suburbanites, each more middle aged than the one before. You wouldn't just remove the glamor from drug use, you'd make drugs incredibly boring (my experience comes straight from Facebook, the joy of which declines proportionately to the number of old people who create accounts for use as a professional networking platform). The day pot smoking goes corporate is the day people stop doing it. I tell you this because it is truth. You'd also do away with the mess the state has apparently made out of the simple process of creating a medical marijuana program. People with terminal illnesses should get a "Get out of Jail" free card for use whenever they get caught doing something illegal that doesn't actually hurt another person. I mean, why would we put someone with pancreatic cancer into the criminal justice system just because he got caught with a hooker? Dude's dying. We should all be chipping in. Anyway, it should be a very simple thing to create a program to get these people legally prescribed medicine that helps them alleviate pain. That's what voters did when they voted to legalize medical marijuana. The state is acting like that one co-worker who goldbricks because he doesn't really want to do his job, and thinks that if he does it poorly enough the boss will tell him he doesn't have to do it. Note to the state: Everyone hates that guy. Stop being him. |
