So, Michael Phelps, someone caught you on camera smoking pot. Big deal. You've won a ton of Olympic Gold Medals. You have a ton of money in endorsements. You deserve to relax a little. The pot laws are insane. Hundreds of thousands of people have been arrested and are in prison because they had in their possession the leaves of a plant that, when smoked, produces a happy high for a short time. We are all going to look back on this in a hundred years the same way we look back on the testing of witches in Massachusetts in the 1600s. Maybe, with luck, this insanity will end in just ten or twenty years. Enforcement of pot laws cost millions, billions of dollars and ruin hundreds of thousands of lives.
If you wish to smoke pot, Michael, come to California and get a doctor's recommendation, then go to one of our storefront collectives, walk in and buy a few buds legally. For all practical purposes, marijuana is legal in California. Anyone who buys it illegally in this state is a fool.
Someday, marijuana will just be legal, taxed and regulated. And it will be no big deal to smoke a little doobie on a Saturday night in America, the Land of the Free.
Regards,
NEWSGUY
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