Tuesday, March 05, 2013
The miracle of 502
Polistra is watching the growth of a strange coalition. Wash state's legalization of pot is bringing the hippieshits and Repooflicans together on three separate points.
(1) Last month I discussed taxation. Repoofs want to evade all taxes because they're naturally treasonous, but hippieshits normally don't think much about taxation. Prop 502 will have to bring existing semi-legal "medical" marijuana businesses into a new highly-taxed and highly-regulated system for all pot, because that was the main selling point of 502. Those semi-legal businesses don't like the change.
(2) Today the UN has repeated a call to cancel both Wash and Colo laws. Drug prohibition means huge fortunes for the third-world dictators who dominate the UN, and they're not going to give up their fortunes easily.
(3) Also today, eight former Drug Enforcement Administration heads call on the federal government to "nullify" the Wash and Colo laws. Not a proper use of "nullify", but DEA never cared about any sort of propriety or legality. Drug prohibition means huge fortunes for DEA and local cop departments, and they're not going to give up their fortunes easily.
So we have hippieshits and Repoofs agreeing on taxation, the need to eliminate the UN, and the Tenth Amendment. They're both wrong on taxation, both correct on the other issues.
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