CBS News has a pro/con feature today on marijuana legalization with a great piece from Ethan Nadelmann and an opposing view coauthored by Stephen Baldwin and Kevin McCullough. Pete Guither properly demolishes the later here, but I just want to reiterate how crazy it is that Stephen Baldwin has become the poster boy for the war on marijuana. It's ridiculous.

Fortunately, Baldwin totally lives up to everyone's expectations by ceasing to make sense the instant he gets started:

America doesn't want its pot...American potheads do!

Sure the debate is raging presently, but it's as fictional in its need as whether pigs can fly or whether Superman was or was not faster than that bullet.

In the modern trumped up controversy over whether marijuana should be legalized for the masses, the biggest canard of all is the supposed demand that exists. As a team that produces a weekly talk radio show now heard on 195 stations, we can earnestly say one thing is definitively true in the discussions we've launched about the revival of the "Should pot be legal?" question: "America doesn't want its pot...American potheads do!"

It's hilariously false on multiple levels:

1. There's an online poll embedded right there on the same page showing 94.86% support for legalizing marijuana.

2. Baldwin claims only potheads want to legalize marijuana, despite having recently gotten his ass kicked in a debate with Ron Paul, who has never tried it.

3. If the press could find someone more famous than Stephen Baldwin to oppose legalization, he wouldn't even get the opportunity to say these things.

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