Monday, September 19th 2005
What’s this guy smoking?
The Daily Cal site is down, but something in one of the articles bugged me enough that I’ll retype the offending part here. From the article, “Medical Marijuana Legality Still Controversial in Berkeley”:
Others said legalizing medical marijuana would create more opportunities for the drug to be abused.
“It would backfire, and would be abused like a variety of other prescription drugs, such as Vicodin,” said UC Berkeley freshman Justin Effref.
So let’s keep it illegal, because obviously that’s what’s stopping people from abusing it. And maybe we should make these prescription drugs illegal too, since they’re obviously being abused by some folks. Don’t even get me started on non-prescription drugs, like cold medicine. I’m sure that stuff gets abused like crazy, so let’s just make everything illegal. Oh wait, you’re saying that some people actually have legitimate medical reasons to take these things? Well too bad, because legalizing a drug just creates “more opportunities for the drug to be abused.”
In other news, the LA Times is reporting “Pot Use Down Where Medical Use OK.”
I guess the only thing that has “backfired” is Effref’s logic.
