Interesting op-ed in the NY Times.
I've never really seen this connection before, but then IANAL, so the ins and outs of most of Constitutional law is out of my purview (I know a little, but not tons). I sincerely hope that there is a way to legalize drugs without trashing the New Deal. Of course, I also wanted to keep our military out of Iraq and count all the votes in the presidential election, so I am clearly a starry-eyed dreamer.
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I agree with the not trashing of the New Deal. The best hope, of course, is for people to let science and not their emotional prejudices rule their policy making and have the FDA approve marijuana as a prespiction drug. But we live in a country where a tyrannical minority is censoring the majority and pushing all the light out of the enlightenment. So perhaps we are just both starry eyed dreamers.
btw thanks for the link on your site it's been drawing traffic for me and I appreciate that.
Liberalgrrl
It has always seemed weird to me that pot is illegal, while cigs and alcohol are legal, and heavy duty narcotics are available by prescrption. Marijuana should clearly fall into one of those two categories.
Oh, and you're welcome for the link :)
The drug laws where originally a racist construct, and put in place to control minority groups. Again go read your history.
You would think however that they would have learned a lesson from prohibition. When you make a product that people want, they will obtain it, and you create a environment ripe for violence for control of the black market that supplies the product.
But we are doomed to repeat our mistakes since no one seems to fine any value in a true classical liberal education, or bothers to study history to even learn what mistakes have already been made.
LOTE, the drug sentencing laws are racist. Hence crack gets you a longer jail term than coke, becuase crack is perceived as being a drug used most often by poor blacks.
The prohibition laws themselves are not about race, they are about prudish, conservative social conventions (otherwise cocaine would be legal). And also to some extent about foreign policy. And of course a little bit about economic protections for big tobacco and alcohol producers.
Again you need to read what was being said at the time the laws were enacted. It's seems that you missed history class.
The original intent of the The prohibition laws were racist!
Marijuana was outlawed because it was the drug of chose in the Hispanic community, Cocaine was a "Black Drug" at the time, no matter that 90% of coke users got it from their "soft drinks"
Until you learn the history of the laws, please don't try and correct me.
THE LAWS WERE ENACTED FOR RACIST GOALS!
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