Good News In Ballot Initiatives

The futility of the War on Drugs is slowly being realized across the nation. Michigan joined the growing ranks of the states that have reached what should be a completely obvious conclusion: very sick people should be allowed to use things that heal them, or reduce their pain. How this is not standard practice already is simply staggering, and quite frankly, criminal. Why would we deny them this? We allow people to use a substance which is interchangeable with heroin to treat their pain, but not something that is far less addictive and harmful? I have yet to hear a good reason for this from a prohibitionist.

Conservatives should be ashamed that one of the great liberal bogeymen, Massachusetts, has trimmed back governmental interference that they embrace. Massachusetts has decriminalized personal quantities of marijuana, a good first step. Quite frankly, one cannot be a real conservative and support the criminalization of drugs, especially marijuana. It goes against the core beliefs of government non-interference and personal responsibility. To be a prohibitionist conservative is to be a hypocrite.