The last several weeks in South Dakota have seen jockeying back and forth as the legislature wrestled internally on whether to follow “the will of the people” in the 2020 elections to legalize both medical and recreational use of that nasty old stuff cannibis.
Both parties seem to be torn between those who want to chastise and overturn the will of the people, and those who want to (in some way) legalize the stuff. The excuses for sticking it to the people are many, and some are pretty pitiful: such as “‘t’aint legal for the Feds yet” to “the roads will be more unsafe” and “but the chillun’s be able to get it easier.” Why? If highway safety were really such an overriding concern, SD would have never ended alcohol prohibition and would be a dry State today. If ease of minors getting alcohol and tobacco were so critical, well – you know what would still be illegal.
In the total all-States view, South Dakota isn’t much. But it reflects all too much the American war on some drugs.
This is all preliminary to the main subject of this commentary: while we are screaming and crying and praying over a few thousand civilians in Ukraine dying in that war, we continue to see tens and even hundreds of people die here in the Fifty States in our so-far eternal war on some drugs.
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DC or… can we hope, “Jericho?”
This Sunday, the first elements of the 2022 Freedom Convoy of truckers, friends, family, supporters – and no doubt a dozen “friends of Jesus in a microbus” made their first orbit on the Beltway (I-95 and I-495) around the District of Criminals.
I understand that they intend to repeat that drive, slowly but apparently NOT blocking traffic, today (Monday 07 March 2022).
Which triggered some interesting thoughts for Debby and me.
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