Dopey Moms
I’m sorry, but these moms are idiots : On Tuesday, a contingent of California moms outlined the parental case for legalizing marijuana. During a press conference early in the day and a later conference call with reporters outside of California, the marijuana moms argued that it is in every child’s best interest for California to legalize the very same drug that schools and parents have religiously dogged since before the creation of first lady Nancy Reagan’s “Drug Abuse Resistance Education” program in the 1980s. “It might be counterintuitive,” said Hanna Dershowitz, an attorney and mother of two, ages seven and five. “I have the conversation [with my kids] every day about how much sugar is appropriate,” she said. “The right thing is to have a reasonable conversation in the context of controlled, regulated marijuana.” A member of the Women’s Marijuana Party, Dershowitz was one of several mothers who said during a conference call with reporters that the state’s punitive reactions to drug possession are not only drastic, but also anti-parent and anti-family. “I am the mother of two sons, both are in their 30s, but once a mom, you’re always advocating for your children and your children’s children,” said Gretchen Burns Bergman, a substance abuse counselor who helps families overcome addiction. In 1990, Bergman’s oldest son was arrested for marijuana possession. That charge, she wrote on the Huffington Post, “led to a decade of cycling in and out of the prison system for non-violent, low-level drug possession charges.” These people are naive if they think legalizing marijuana is going to make California a better place for their children and grandchildren. And if they think millions of new dollars are suddenly going to flow into California coffers, they’re just plain stupid. People who have been selling dope illegally all these years are not suddenly going to run out and get a license and start paying taxes. Just as gun control doesn’t stop crooks of having guns, taxing dope will not cause bad people to suddenly become compliant with the law. If anything the cartels that control most of the pot supply will simply up their illegal shipments into California to meet the demand from idiots who suddenly feel free to smoke dope, even if it’s still illegal under Federal law. These moms ought to have their kids taken away.
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on October 20, 2010. Filed under