The Ballad of Love and Hate

Penn Jillette on Obama’s drug policy.

“Now, he has not left this to states’ rights,” Jillette said. “As you know, medical marijuana you can get in California, and the feds are coming in to try to stop this. States’ rights don’t mean jack shit to the Obama administration on anything except gay marriage.”
 
Penn says, “I think it’s beyond hypocrisy. I think it’s something to do with class. A lot of people have accused Obama of class warfare, but in the wrong direction. I believe this is Obama chortling with Jimmy Fallon about lower class people. Do we believe, even for a second, that if Obama had been busted for marijuana — under the laws that he condones — would his life have been better?”

He adds: ”If [Obama] had been busted under his laws, he would have done hard f*cking time. And if he had done time in prison, time in federal prison, time for his ‘weed’ and ‘a little blow,’ he would not be President of the United States of America. He would not have gone to his fancy-ass college, he would not have sold books that sold millions and millions of copies and made millions and millions of dollars, he would not have a beautiful, smart wife, he would not have a great job. He would have been in fucking prison, and it’s not a goddamn joke. People who smoke marijuana must be set free. It is insane to lock people up.”

You know, he’s got a point. In this state we’ve voted “Yes” on a progressive marijuana policy for the last 20 years, and every time the feds crack down.

I’m not a marijuana smoker, but I agree that it’s complete horse shit that our state rights are being put down. You can’t allow us to work under the laws we created for years and shut it down so you look tough to conservative voters that don’t even live here.

Keep your shit out of our state. Let us be weird so we can treat our cancer victims and people that actually are suffering the way we want.