A brilliant bit of analysis from Allahpundit:
Taking a modest pro-legalization position (i.e. “I don’t use it myself and don’t want kids using it, but…”) would (a) electrify the debate over a hot-button issue, which she obviously relishes doing (see, e.g., “death panels”), (b) prove that she doesn’t mindlessly follow Republican orthodoxy, which would force centrists and libertarians to give her a second look, (c) mindfark the media, which would be on her side for once, and (d) reestablish her political identity as a western, not southern, conservative.
Well, northwestern, at any rate. Read the whole thing, and just imagine the MSM gears grinding.
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3 responses to “Northern Lights”
I don’t use, and would never recommend others using (I know long time users,several of them, and I think they are at best functionally retarded) but making it illegal on the same scale as some other drugs is ridiculous.
I can understand cocaine, and heroine and meth, but the concerns of dosage are virtually nonexistent with marijuana. In those other cases? VERY MUCH a concern, and I don’t believe that legalization will reduce self inflicted deaths, or dangerous reactions, that can damage others in the case of coke heroine or meth.
Marijuana? If you want to toke yourself into a joke by age 40? Go for it, but destroying an individuals life for the novelty of what it’s like, is just wrong.
Uh. Cocaine didn’t used to be much of a problem until “cocainized Negros raping White women” (look it up) became a problem around 1913/1914.
And Meth was over the counter until the government got into the act.
An easier one for Palin than full legalization: med pot. It has high support even among conservatives.