Root Causes and Summit Highs

The discussion of the nearly uncontrolled use of marijuana is a pet peeve of mine, reminding me of just how stupid our policies are about cannabis. We need policies that reflect public health and safety balanced by freedom to do what isn't inherently unsafe, but right now are just letting people do it wherever they want. Here are a few ideas.

-- The idea of limiting where it can be smoked, similar to common-sense limitations on where liquor can be consumed, sounds like a wonderful idea.

-- Similarly, to take the example of liquor one step further, we recognize that there's a bit difference between different types of liquor. Take whiskey and beer, for instance, where beer is limited to a small percentage of alcohol, while whiskeys can go very high. Why not do the same thing for marijuana? Implement a color code system for marijuana strengths--such as red for the strongest and blue for the weakest--so that people can be certain that they're not getting something stronger than what they want to consume.

-- Restrictions should be placed on types of marijuana above a certain percentage of THC, to reflect the different effect on the body of larger amounts of THC.

-- Restrict the strength of marijuana for people based on their ages, which would reflect how much it can cause problems for developing brains for those below the age of 25.

Without further explanation, which never comes, I think firing the statistics person was a good idea. I mean, why would you have 16 out of 19 of them revised to more unemployment? Why wouldn't that number be eight or nine?

Furthermore, that time they revised it by 800,000, that was within 60 days of the election permitting the central planners at the Federal Reserve to do an emergency rate cut. This has never happened before.

Then none of those guys explain anything. I think it's preposterous, but what do I know?

The only thing central banks should do is back up banks at a penalty interest rate. They shouldn't push the economy around.

I'm not a marijuana guy. We've heard for years that it's not addictive, yet those I know who use it orient their life around it, and won't stop talking about it.

The fact that Mary Jane is a more controlled substance than heroin is ridiculous.

Ugh Noah Rothman, the only person who's foreign policy predictions and knowledge is worse than Joe Bidens. I guess I will skip this one.

For a really good discussion on marijuana use and abuse listen to this Ann Coulter interview with Kevin Sabet, author of Smokescreen: What the Marijuana Industry Doesn’t Wany You to Know.