For whatever reason, Drudge and Reason have very different ways of presenting the same story about a new congressional move to ratchet down the War on Drugs.
Drudge puts it this way:
Which accurately reflects the Salon headline Drudge links:
Dems move to change federal pot laws
Reps. Earl Blumenauer and Jared Polis to introduce bill Tuesday to end prohibition
Reason, to its credit, has a much more objective report on the same bill than Salon, minus the pro-Democrat headline bias, and the story includes information about several Republicans who also favor changes in the federal marijuana laws:
Based on a bill previously introduced by former Reps. Ron Paul and Barney Frank, the Blumenauer-Polis legislation would establish a federal tax-and-regulate scheme for marijuana:
In states that legalize pot, growers would have to obtain a federal permit. Oversight of marijuana would be removed from the Drug Enforcement Administration and given to the newly renamed Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Marijuana and Firearms, and it would remain illegal to bring marijuana from a state where it’s legal to one where it isn’t.
Advocates who are working with the lawmakers acknowledge it could take years for any changes to get through Congress, but they’re encouraged by recent developments. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell last week came out in support of efforts to legalize hemp in his home state of Kentucky, and U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., is expected to introduce legislation allowing states to set their own policy on marijuana.
I’d hate to see this become a partisan issue with the Republicans supporting the War on Drugs, and the Democrats in opposition. But (unfortunately) I think that is exactly what many Democrats — and many Republicans — want.
What in hell are they trying to do? Prove M. Simon right?
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5 responses to “May the purest prohibition party lose!”
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Yes. The social conservatives want a strict social conservative party. They have no room for the Goldwater wing.
I intend to do my best to grant them their wish.
I was amazed at how many times in the last year I was told I was unwelcome in the Republican Party.
I have come to the conclusion that they are a bigger menace to the nation than the overspending Democrats.
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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber barons cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. CS Lewis
[…] May the purest prohibition party lose! […]
You see Eric, when a person smokes pot, it makes Jesus cry. Well, Republicans know which deity butters America’s bread! No one has a right to make Jesus cry, for his sake! The first amendment guarantees the religious freedom of Christians to enact laws that punish people for making Jesus cry.
/s off
Personally, I think the Republicans will once again earn the moniker “The Stupid Party” by doubling down in favor of the WOD. I wish it weren’t so.
Randy,
Since I stopped being a Republican a few days ago my thinking about how to destroy the Party has gone into overdrive.
See:
http://classicalvalues.com/2013/02/how-i-intend-to-destroy-the-prohibition-party/