Today’s New York Times featured an article about a ballot initiative to legalize wacky weed in the Golden State. Backers of the measure say taxing pot will help offset California’s fiscal crisis.
Deep in the article, Frank Schubert, Proposition 8′s campaign manager, (the referendum prohibiting LGBT marriage equality) is quoted on his opposition to legalizing marijuana:
“There is going to be a large sector of the electorate that would never do this themselves that’s going to sort out what the harm would be versus what the supposed good would be,” said Schubert. “That is where the election is going to be won.”
Supporters of legalizing marijuana should be forewarned. If Schubert ends up running the opposition he will:
1) Target undecided voters with a barrage of misinformation and fear tactics
2) Most likely exploit children to create the appearance of “harm”
That is the dishonest and immoral approach he used during the Prop. 8 vote. I suspect he will duplicate the sinister strategy – except the Bogey man will be ganja instead of gays.
This referendum should be based on facts. Unfortunately, if Schubert gets involved, the debate will degenerate and become a trashy farce mired in cynical fiction and social friction.
If Schubert signs on to this campaign, all the voters in California will lose – regardless of who ends up winning this fight at the ballot box.
All of these uptight busybodies should just get stoned and have some sex. Then they’d be too blissed out to screw with the lives of total strangers.
This, from the guy who thinks smoking tobacco is a constitutional right, and once went completely histrionic about how it’s become acceptable to “attack smokers,” begging readers to “think about the broader implications this [banning smoking] has on basic American principles,” finishing his rant with much hysterical nonsense about the “liberty and freedom … at the core of our civilization,” and “equal protection for all.” (Yes, he was still raving on about smoking, and nothing else.) And, as we all know, smoking — especially Frank’s — doesn’t harm anyone! (Where’s a dripping-sarcasm smiley when you need one?)
For a political philosophy that hates ‘govenment interference’ in people’s lives, they sure love to do it themselves. I guess Frankie never heard of the medically *proven* harm that second hand smoke causes. He can smoke himself into a big cancerous lesion if he wants, but no one else should have to smell his burning weeds. He probably reeks and has yellow fingertips from it. yuk.