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Warum legalisierende Hanf-Marken Richtung

Donnerstag, den 2. April 2009

Durch Joe Klein |

Während der Vergangenheit einige Jahre, habe ich eine Phantasie, ein Letztes beherborgen politisch Kreuzzug für das Babyhochkonjunktur Erzeugung. Wir, die auf dem Weg von righteousness begannen, marschierend für Zivilrechte und gegen Krieg in Vietnam Notwendigkeit, eine passend high-minded Annäherung zur Rampe Ausgang des Lebens zu finden. In diesem Fall bedeute ich das high-minded Teil buchstäblich. Und so, ein Abkommen: geben Sie uns Drogen, nachdem ein bestimmtes Alter - sagen Sie, 80 - alle Drogen, irgendwelche Drogen, die wir wünschen. In der Rückkehr geben wir Ihnen unsere Führerscheine. (Ich bedeute, kann Sie sich vorstellen, wie terrifying eine Nation der altersschwachen, solipsistic 90 Einjahresboomers hinter dem Rad? sein- würde) Wir lassen Sie mit Ihren Leben - viel, von dem aufgewendetes Zahlen für unseren Ruhestand, seien Sie auf jeden Fall - ohne zu müssen fortfahren, uns zu hören, über unseren jeden Schmerz und Rückfluß uns zu beschweren. Wir sind zu beschäftigte erforschende geänderte Zustände des Bewußtseins. Ich habe sogar einen Slogan für die Kampagne: „Stimmen Sie innen, einschalten ab, der tote Tropfen.“

Eine Phantasie, nehme ich an. Aber, unter dem wütenden roil der Wirtschaftskrise, hat ein nationales Gespräch ruhig über das irrationality unserer Drogegesetze angefangen. Es geht an in Zustandgesetzgebungen, wie New York, in dem die drakonischen Rockefeller Drogegesetze oben für Bericht sind; in anderen Zuständen von Kalifornien zu Massachusetts, werden verschiedene Formen von Marihuana decriminalization verordnet. Und es hat den Fußboden des Kongresses erreicht, in dem Senatoren Jim Webb und Arlen Erscheinung ein Haupt Gefängnis-verbessern Paket vorgeschlagen haben, das direkt das Droge-Verurteilen von Politik adressieren würde.

Es gibt auch koboldhaftere Zeichen einer zeitgeist Verschiebung. Einigen Wochen, entschied das Weiße Haus, ein Forum zu inszenieren vor, in dem der Präsident die Fragen beantworten würde, die von der öffentlichkeit eingereicht wurden; 92.000 Leute reagierten - und die meisten ihnen schienen mit der Legalisierung des Marihuanas besessen gewesen. Die zwei populärsten Fragen über „grüne Jobs und Energie,“ zum Beispiel, waren über Topf. Der Präsident entließ den Erguß - passend, schätze ich - als online Stimmzettel-anfüllen und entlassen der Legalisierungfrage mit einem einfachem: „Nr.“

Dieses war ein seltener Fall von Barack Obama reflexively reagierend, ohne zu versuchen, an eine ernste Politikfrage kreativ zu denken. Er nahm tatsächlich den traditionellen Weg wenigen Widerstandes: eine unerwartete Antwort auf Marihuana würde einen tabloid Feuersturm ausgestoßen haben und Aufmerksamkeit vom Etatkampf und von allen jenen Sicherheitsleistungen umgeleitet. In fact, the default fate of any politician who publicly considers the legalization of marijuana is to be cast into the outer darkness. Such a person is assumed to be stoned all the time, unworthy of being taken seriously. Such a person would be lacerated by the assorted boozehounds and pill poppers of talk radio. The hypocrisy inherent in the American conversation about stimulants is staggering.

But there are big issues here, issues of economy and simple justice, especially on the sentencing side. As Webb pointed out in a cover story in Parade magazine, the U.S. is, by far, the most “criminal” country in the world, with 5% of the world’s population and 25% of its prisoners. We spend $68 billion per year on corrections, and one-third of those being corrected are serving time for nonviolent drug crimes. We spend about $150 billion on policing and courts, and 47.5% of all arrests are marijuana-related. That is an awful lot of money, most of it nonfederal, that could be spent on better schools or infrastructure — or simply returned to the public.

At the same time, there is an enormous potential windfall in the taxation of marijuana. It is estimated that pot is the largest cash crop in California, with annual revenues approaching $14 billion. A 10% pot tax would yield $1.4 billion in California alone. And that’s probably a fraction of the revenues that would be available — and of the economic impact, with thousands of new jobs in agriculture, packaging, marketing and advertising. A veritable marijuana economic-stimulus package!

So why not do it? There are serious moral arguments, both secular and religious. There are those who believe — with some good reason — that the accretion of legalized vices is debilitating, that we are a less virtuous society since gambling spilled out from Las Vegas to “riverboats” and state lotteries across the country. There is a medical argument, though not a very convincing one: alcohol is more dangerous in a variety of ways, including the tendency of some drunks to get violent. One could argue that the abuse of McDonald’s has a greater potential health-care cost than the abuse of marijuana. (Although it’s true that with legalization, those two might not be unrelated.) Obviously, marijuana can be abused. But the costs of criminalization have proved to be enormous, perhaps unsustainable. Would legalization be any worse?

In any case, the drug-reform discussion comes just at the right moment. We boomers are getting older every day. You’re not going to want us on the highways. Make us your best offer.


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