Pot Calling the Kettle Black

For some reason George Soros has spent big money to get recreational marijuana legalized in the United States … and he is succeeding.  (Is it because he hates this country so much?)  He has recently been victorious in both Washington state and Colorado. 

Now many other states, seeing the tax revenue that legalized recreational pot can produce, are greedily moving toward mimicking the relaxation of their own drug laws.  First they are ok-ing medical marijuana, then no penalty for small amounts of Mary Jane, next legalizing recreational weed use, and finally imposing taxes on such indulgences.  I say “finally,” but I strongly suspect there will be many further steps in this stairway to national perdition.

I have, in the past, commented that this trend will not be without its consequences … see: Yes We Cannibis.  Nothing pleasurable really is.  Although small, infrequent use of ganja may be relatively harmless … I sincerely doubt that this will characterize the majority of such future reefer users.  Look what has happened in our entertainment industry … all those glitterati could not have gotten so stupid on their own. 

When, many years from now, our society fully recognizes the ultimate costs, George Soros will be long gone and the tax revenue produced by this indulgence will be too great to forgo.  In the meantime there will be legions of apologists who chose to be blind to our nation's downward spiral. 

I am not one of them.

Afterward: I might have said that the nation is going to pot ...