Seems like medical marijuana is all the rage these days!
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) came out in favor of medical marijuana Thursday in a Las Vegas Sun interview, becoming one of the highest elected officials in the U.S. government to give his support.
“If you’d asked me this question a dozen years ago, it would have been easy to answer — I would have said no, because [marijuana] leads to other stuff,” Reid was quoted as saying. “But I can’t say that anymore.”
“I think we need to take a real close look at this,” he added. “I think that there’s some medical reasons for marijuana.”
Although it remains illegal under federal law, polls show that most Americans support medical marijuana. And Attorney General Eric Holder announced in August that the Department of Justice would not interfere, at least at first, as states that have legalized weed for adults create their regulatory regimes — a dramatic policy shift from federal authorities’ targeting of medical marijuana dispensaries that were legal under state law.
Legalizing marijuana will allow the government to tax it. That is a very bad thing. Decriminalizing marijuana will allow anyone to grow it in their backyard without legal penalty. That is a very good thing. Because it eliminates the tomfoolery sanctimonious politicians always exhibit for their own personal profit.