Les Jones: Make That Two Presidential Dope Smokers

March 02, 2005

News > Make That Two Presidential Dope Smokers

I didn't get around to posting on this, and assumed I'd be left behind, but there hasn't been much attention paid to it. The unlikely-named Doug Wead has revealed audiotaped conversations with Bush that reveal, among other things, that Bush toked up.

Clinton admitted to smoking weed (but not inhaling!). Gore admitted to getting small while he was in Vietnam. Can we just go ahead and acknowledge that lots and lots of people smoke or have smoked herb and legalize the stuff?

Mary Jane doesn't seem any worse than alcohol, all things considered. Neither is remotely in the same league as narcotics. It's about time to end marijuana prohibition. It didn't work any better than alcohol prohibition, and since it doesn't send people into Reefer Madness-style freakouts, there doesn't seem to be any reason to ban it.

Posted by lesjones

Comments

We should just end drug prohibition period. But MJ is a good place to start.

Posted by: Heartless Libertarian at March 02, 2005

Here's what I can't figure, but maybe I'm missing something:

Prohibition of alcohol required a Constitutional amendment.

Prohibition of other drugs (including marijuana)...didn't.

Wha?

Posted by: Thibodeaux at March 02, 2005

I'm sure there have been more than two. Our early, agrarian presidents grew hemp for fiber. Surely they put the leaves in their pipes on occasion.

The tax revenues and savings on law enforcement would be substantial.

Posted by: hellbent at March 02, 2005

There was a court case in the 1930's under the Left's favorite FDR that basically killed the 9th and 10th amendments. Government can do anything, and you have no recourse. The one that gave them the right to regulate what you grow on your own property for your own consumption was the decision that turned government into the monster we have today. (That decision said the gov. could control grain raised on your land for consumption by your animals... otherwise, how would we have central control of the economy?)

The constitution mentions something like 4 crimes: Counterfitting, smuggling, treason and sedition. There may be one or 2 others, but not the thousands that we have today.

I'm sure one of the legal blogs could give us references to case law, ect.

Posted by: Zendo Deb at March 02, 2005