| There are enough lazy dumbasses, marijuana or not. I don't care about the morality of it.
However, the cost of it is ludicrously high, in that we're now besting Soviet Russia in the number of Americans incarcerated at any one time - thanks in no small part to drug convictions; and it's now a terrible strain on most state budgets.
Of course, there is a simple solution: We legalize the stuff, and tax it to hell. That'd be the smart way. But thanks to the zealotry of the American system since Nixon, attributing pot to every known sin including heroin, prostitution and anti-war protesting, it'll never happen in a million years.
Bastards.
. . . whenever any government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. |