Hawkeye said:
Becuase there are 200 million americans who have been drikning alchol for pretty much their entire lives and would violently oppose outlawing alchol. People are used to drinking it and would just bootleg/buy bootlegs. Now that society is used to alchol, it will never go away. |
That may be so, but doesn't that make the rationale for keeping marijuana illegal, because its dangerous even though its actually less dangerous than alcohol, completely irrational? I mean that is like legalizing LSD but keeping marijuana illegal.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
