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Почему узаконивая чувство моделей Cannabis

Пятница 2-ое апрель 2009

Джо Klein |

На прошлый несколько лет, я затаивал фантазию, последнюю политическую кампанию для поколения младенц-заграждения. Мы, которые начали на курсе righteousness, марширующ для права граждан и против войны в Вьетнаме, потребности найти соотвествующе high-minded подход к пандусу выхода жизни. In this case, я намереваюсь high-minded часть буквальн. И так, дело: дайте нам снадобья, после того как некоторое время - скажите, 80 - все снадобья, любые снадобья, котор мы хотим. В возвращении, мы передадим вам лицензии нашего водителя. (Я намереваюсь, могусь вы представить как ужасать нацию ветхих, solipsistic boomers 90 year-old за колесом был бы?) Мы будем препятствовать вам продолжать с вашими жизнями - очень of which будет потраченный оплачивать для нашего выхода на пенсию, в любом случае - без услышать, что мы пожаловались о наших каждых боли и рефлюксе. Мы будем слишком многодельными исследуя измененными положениями сознавания. Я даже имею лозунг для кампании: «Настроьте внутри, поверните дальше, падение мертвое.»

Фантазия, я полагаю. Но, под злющим roil економичюеского кризиса, национальный переговор тих начинал о irrationality наших законов снадобья. Оно идет дальше в штатные законодательства, как нью-йорк, где draconian законы снадобья Rockefeller вверх для просмотрения; в других положениях, от California к Massachusetts, enacted различные формы decriminalization марихуаны. И оно достигало пол съезда, где сенаторы Джим Webb и призрак Arlen предлагали главную тюрьм-реформируют пакет, который сразу адресовал бы снадобь-присуждать политике.

Будут также больше знаков puckish переноса zeitgeist. Немного неделей тому назад, Белый дом решил поставить форум в котором президент ответил бы вопросы представленные публикой; 92.000 людей ответили - и большое часть из их показалась преследованным с узаконением марихуаны. 2 самых популярных вопроса о «зеленых работах и энергии,» например, были о баке. Президент уволил outpouring - соотвествующе, я угадываю - как online ballot-заполнять и после того как он уволен вопросу о узаконения с просто: «Нет.»

Это был редкий пример Barack Obama реагируя reflexively, без пытать думать творчески, о серьезном вопросе о политики. Он, в действительности, принимал традиционный курс наименьшего сопротивления: непредвиденный ответ на марихуане запустил бы firestorm tabloid, отвлекая внимание от драки бюджети и всех тех выкупов. 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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