So What If It Is Just a Ruse?
April 25, 2014
I saw a clip of the insufferable blowhard Bill O’Reilly saying that the whole medical marijuana thing was just a ruse. Supporters of medical marijuana really want full legalization so they can legally get high. But so what if it is just a ruse? Marijuana and all drugs should be just as legal as beer and bananas. If the legalization of medical marijuana must come first before complete drug freedom is restored then so be it. Who cares if it is just a ruse? Who cares if people just want to get high? O’Reilly cares. But he cares because he is puritanical busybody.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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