The anti-drug moralists are in full cry after Michael Phelps, as predicted.
All hail the idiot sheriff of South Carolina's Richland County, who says he'll charge Phelps criminally if he can muster the evidence. Y'all know how it is down south there, where no crime goes unpunished, right? And Sheriff Leon Lott can't find anything more important to do, or at least nothing else that might make the national news.
Then there are undoubtedly the tee-totalers at USA Swimming who suspended Phelps from competition for three months. Not because smoking a bit of pot would enhance his performance--never a suggestion about pot, which of course, has been surrounded with a mythology that it makes recreational users, well, losers. Phelps a loser? Well, not exactly.
But there's some good news just now on the marijuana front. The Drug Policy Alliance asked folks to protest to the Obama Administration about the latest raids on medical marijuana providers in California, and a whole bunch of losers somehow managed to stay awake long enough to send so many emails and faxes that they got our new prez's attention.
According to the Drug Policy Alliance, this was the response:
"The President believes that federal resources should not be used to circumvent state laws, and as he continues to appoint senior leadership to fill out the ranks of the federal government, he expects them to review their policies with that in mind."
So it looks like some freedom from DEA hardball tactics may be on the way.
Now all we need is for the Obama Administration to stand up for rational discourse on the overall subject of marijuana. It's way past time.
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I agree! Every single day there are countless murders and widespread havoc wreaked by the sordid rivalries of the black market drug trade. It is more than about time the massive hypocrisies emanating from the psychosis of recreational drug prohibitions are challenged.
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