Drug War stupidity
I don’t really watch the debates, because honestly, all the presidential candidates are basically in pandering mode now. How else can you explain Hillary Clinton’s inane babble about paying money to people for kids, Guiliani’s 9/11 name dropping at everything including when he orders dinner, to Gravel’s “sticking it to the man” boasts about stiffing credit card companies. It’s just drivel.
Some drivel is worse than others.
Recently, both Romney and McCain blew off the issue of medical marijuana. Politicians, and Republicans especially, have a real blind spot when it comes to the Drug War. They lose all common sense and attempt to legislate medical treatment. Despite all the evidence of it helping cancer patients and the terminally ill, politicians just ignore it, citing outdated reasons from the fifties for keeping marijuana totally illegal in every way.
Let me put it this way: My friend who is having chemo to treat his colon cancer, is unable to get a medical marijuana prescription, but some narcissistic, upper class, douchebag (male or female) is able to get an FDA approved prescription for botulism, a deadly poison, to inject into the folds of skin above the eyes in a desperate attempt to hold on to a few more years of youth.
Yeah, it’s really that dumb.
November 12th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
I can explain Hillary’s idea. If the federal government pays for kids, that won’t encourage rich people or middle classed people to have kids. It will encourage poor people to have kids. More poor people means more people to vote for Democrats and more poor people for the Democrats to have to take care of, and to get rich people who feel guilty to support the Democrats to do so.
The drug issue is such that you can’t even have a rational argument with people over it.