A Tale of Two Worlds

Friday 11 January 2013 - Filed under Uncategorized

This is the kind of shit that makes one want to go ballistic with rage. Reason:

In many parts of the country, marijuana users are flummoxed about how to explain their arrest records to current and future employers, how to regain custody of their children from the state, how to make all their drug court appearances, how to pay mandatory substance abuse counseling fees, and how to get their seized vehicles returned so that they can go to work and drug court and mandatory substance abuse counseling.

In D.C., marijuana users are worried about etiquette

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If you’ve ever wondered why Washington, D.C. is so languorous about confronting our failed war on drugs, it’s because there is no war on drugs in Washington, D.C. Not if you’re white, that is. At every party I’ve been to since moving to D.C.–so many parties, dear reader!–pot was present. The party G. Gordon Liddy’s producer threw in Northern Virginia? People smoked pot there. The house-warming party hosted by an active duty air force officer? People smoked pot there, too. I’ve seen an Obama speechwriter smoke pot, and a McCain advisor smoke pot, and I even smoked pot with a congressional staffer whose boss was working on anti-marijuana legislation.

If one doesn’t get extremely angry at the idea of people writing laws that put people in jail for smoking pot, smoking pot, you too can fit in in DC.

2013-01-11  »  madlibertarianguy