It turns out that if we had more personal freedoms, we'd have more state monies and could educate ourselves to develop our potential as free human beings.
In the past 40 years, the snowball has been going in the other direction-- fewer personal freedoms, a vast gulag of the incarcerated, and less and less state money for the development of the minds of the public. We've built ourselves a big ignorant prison, with a loud-mouthed fundamentalist preacher for a warden, and called it America.
We should legalize pot, and tax the resulting industry. We should repeal mandatory sentencing guidelines and develop rehabilitation strategies rather than putting the ill-behaved in expensive state hotels. And we should go back to having state-funded state universities.
Thursday, December 04, 2008
call for freedom
Juan Cole (Informed Consent) states clearly in defense of legalization of marajuana:
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