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Perchè senso legalizzante di marche della canapa

Giovedì 2 aprile 2009

Da Joe Klein |

Per il passato parecchi anni, harboring una fantasia, un ultimo politico crusade per la generazione dell'bambino-asta. Noi, che hanno cominciato sul percorso del righteousness, marciando per i diritti civili e contro guerra nel Vietnam, necessità di trovare un metodo giustamente high-minded all'uscita della vita per dilagare. In questo caso, significo letteralmente la parte high-minded. E così, un affare: diaci le droghe, dopo che una determinata età - dica, 80 - tutte le droghe, qualsiasi droghe che desideriamo. In cambio, gli daremo le nostre autorizzazioni del driver. (Significo, posso voi immaginare come terrorizzare una nazione dei boomers decrepit e solipsistic di 90 anni dietro la rotella sarebbe?) Li lasceremo procedere alle vostre vite - molta di cui sia pagamento speso la nostra pensione, comunque - senza dovere sentirlo protestare circa il nostri ogni dolore e riflusso. Saremo esplorazione troppo occupata alterata dichiariamo della coscienza. Persino ho uno slogan per la campagna: “Sintonizzi dentro, accendono, goccia guasto.„

Una fantasia, suppongo. Ma, sotto il roil furious della crisi economica, una conversazione nazionale ha cominciato tranquillamente circa il irrationality delle nostre leggi della droga. Sta continuando in dichiara le legislature, come New York, in cui le leggi draconiane della droga del Rockefeller sono in su per la revisione; in altro dichiara, dalla California a Massachusetts, varie forme del decriminalization della marijuana stanno promulgandi. Ed ha raggiunto il pavimento del congresso, in cui i senatori Jim Webb e lo spettro di Arlen hanno proposto un importante prigione-riformano il pacchetto, che direttamente richiamerebbe droga-sentenziare la politica.

Ci sono inoltre segni più puckish di uno spostamento di zeitgeist. Alcune settimane fa, la Casa Bianca ha deciso organizzare una tribuna in cui il presidente risponderebbe alle domande presentate dal pubblico; 92.000 genti hanno risposto - e la maggior parte di loro hanno sembrato obsessed con la legalizzazione di marijuana. Le due domande più popolari circa “i lavori e l'energia verdi,„ per esempio, erano circa il POT. Il presidente ha allontanato il outpouring - giustamente, indovino - come in linea scheda-riempimento ed allontanato la domanda di legalizzazione con un semplice: “No.„

Ciò era un caso raro di Barack Obama che reagisce reflexively, senza tentare di pensare creativamente, ad una domanda seria di politica. , Infatti, stava prendendo il percorso tradizionale di meno resistenza: una risposta inattesa su marijuana avrebbe lanciato un firestorm del tabloid, deviante l'attenzione dalla lotta del preventivo e da tutti quei bailouts. 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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