Don’t step on the grass, Sam
The Obama administration’s new medicinal-marijuana guidelines, E. M. Zanotti suspects, constitute the first step toward full legalization of the Dreaded Reefer:
[A]s people in Michigan and California have found out, just about anyone can qualify for medicinal marijuana. Take me, for example. I have anxiety issues, possibly some low-grade agoraphobia, self-esteem issues and maybe even a little Seasonal Affective Disorder thrown in. I’m a shoo-in. Just find me the right doctor and a sympathetic pol in the state of Illinois and I’m halfway to dedicating my life to following Phish cross-country and perfecting the grilled cheese sandwich (not that I wouldn’t anyway). Everyone’s a little bit crazy.
Having never done even the lamest grade of Oaxacan ditch weed, I’m not going to vouch for my own level of crazy, but I figure that anything that impedes the progress of the War On (Some) Drugs deserves at least some encouragement.
McGehee »
20 October 2009 · 9:42 am
I could probably qualify if I worked at it. “Um, I have longstanding ambition-control issues stemming from a toke I had off a bong when I was 20.”
Lisa Paul »
20 October 2009 · 9:47 am
The real impetus behind legalizing pot, at least in California, is the incredible tax opportunity. They say, from taxing the use and levying business taxes on the growers, we could reap billions. And I’m all for a Stoner Tax. After all, what else do they do for us except perpetuate tie-dye and the Grateful Dead?
CGHill »
20 October 2009 · 9:49 am
Supposedly it’s the #2 cash crop in this state.
fillyjonk »
20 October 2009 · 11:33 am
What’s #1? Wheat? Peanuts?
Hey, I’m all for a Stoner Tax. Just like the False Hopes Tax that the lottery is. Both of those are taxes I don’t have to pay.
Charles Pergiel »
20 October 2009 · 2:48 pm
I am all for legalizing all drugs, but now that it looks like there might actually be a change, I’m wondering where it might lead. Can you imagine how the corporate types would market drugs? Scary. (Ask your doctor if heroin would be right for you.) And what are all the drug dealers going to do for easy money when the corporations take over? Robbery? Toxic waste dumping?
McGehee »
20 October 2009 · 2:55 pm
Community organizing.
Jeffro »
20 October 2009 · 6:23 pm
Whee! I’m gonna pull a Hunt brothers move and try to corner the Cheetos market! I’ll be rich!
Donna B. »
20 October 2009 · 8:44 pm
It’s not the future dealings of the the unemployed drug dealers I worry so much about as the future of the unemployed DEA agents and drug counselors.