Legalize It

I didn’t know anyone in Congress had the gall to file a bill to legalize marijuana. But the other night, on Real Time With Bill Maher, Rep. Barney Frank said “I’m going to file a bill as soon as we go back to remove all federal penalties for the possession or use of small amounts of marijuana.” Frank said he has always wanted to submit a bill like this, but didn’t think he could get away with it politically until now. “I think its time for the politicians in this one to catch up to the public. The notion that you lock people up for smoking marijuana is pretty silly.”

He told Maher he’d call the bill the “Make Room for Serious Criminals” bill. Unfortunately, there’s really no chance that this bill will pass. The stoner voting block tends to occasionally, um, forget, to vote, whereas the “WON’T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN” voting block tends to make lots of angry phone calls and write angry letters. But it’s a nice start on the road to rational drug laws.