Legalize Laziness!
10th November 2015
Kathy Shaidle ponts and laughs.
Marijuana is the abortion of libertarians.
Small-government types, left and right, are unwholesomely obsessed with legalizing weed. Amusingly, both groups tend to stereotype so-con pro-lifers as hideous, crotchety, single-issue knuckle-draggers—“Have you noticed that most of the women who are against abortion are women you wouldn’t want to fuck in the first place?” But while antiabortion activists have gotten younger, more genial, and more media-savvy, pro-pot protesters haven’t evolved noticeably in my lifetime: They’re still scruffy, smelly, and likely contagious. More proof that “progressives” really do live in the past.
P.S. Why do pro-pot libertarians positively beam when explaining that legalization will “let the government tax and regulate” their favorite drug, when “taxes” and “regulations” are their greatest enemies when it comes to every other product or service?
A good question. I think it’s because they’re trying to persuade people whose values they don’t share and don’t understand, so they do it in a very ignorant and ham-handed way, like offering black demonstrators some watermelon to quit blocking access to your store.
Weed makes people lazy. You’ll notice I didn’t say “stupid,” although no one can convince me that toking it adds brain cells or IQ points, either.
Many of the dedicated potheads I’ve known have been of average—even above average—intelligence. And they were failures. Or, at the very least (“most”?), mediocrities. They worked just hard enough to get by, and even achieved a degree of success in a constricted sphere of endeavor: hosting a long-running novelty radio show; writing a few books and teaching (part-time) at the same college forever; assistant-managing a small indie record or video store, or maybe a bike shop.
Aye, there’s the rub. Smoking per se is sufficiently stupid that arguing over what’s being smoked strikes me as pretty pointless.