Drug Czar Embarrassed By Marijuana Arrest Rates
New FBI data showing that 872,721 Americans were arrested for marijuana last year must have a come as a major shock to Drug Czar John Walters. Watch him just a week ago claiming that we don’t arrest that many people for marijuana:
Of course, the Drug Czar gets caught lying all the time, so no surprises there. But since when does he go around downplaying the results of the drug war? He typically bends over backwards and beyond to tell everyone how well he thinks his programs are working, so why is he so shy about these marijuana arrests? Amazingly, the Drug Czar is actually ashamed. After all, even he could never summon proud words to describe this. The drug war is, first and foremost, a massive campaign against peaceful people who smoke pot for fun. There’s no glory for the soldiers in that fight.
There is just nothing more revealing in the drug war debate than the moment when the people in charge start insisting that the whole thing is really quite civilized and reasonable. Of course, we don’t put people in jail for smoking pot because that would be cruel. Trust us, the people we do put in jail are major assholes, every last one of them. And if you hold this chart at a 45 degree angle and squint, you’ll see that we’re producing exciting results this year.
Meanwhile, the same people who insist that they don’t want to put pot smokers in jail will go raving nuts if you try to pass a law that reduces the number of pot smokers who go to jail.
Of course, the Drug Czar gets caught lying all the time, so no surprises there. But since when does he go around downplaying the results of the drug war? He typically bends over backwards and beyond to tell everyone how well he thinks his programs are working, so why is he so shy about these marijuana arrests? Amazingly, the Drug Czar is actually ashamed. After all, even he could never summon proud words to describe this. The drug war is, first and foremost, a massive campaign against peaceful people who smoke pot for fun. There’s no glory for the soldiers in that fight.
There is just nothing more revealing in the drug war debate than the moment when the people in charge start insisting that the whole thing is really quite civilized and reasonable. Of course, we don’t put people in jail for smoking pot because that would be cruel. Trust us, the people we do put in jail are major assholes, every last one of them. And if you hold this chart at a 45 degree angle and squint, you’ll see that we’re producing exciting results this year.
Meanwhile, the same people who insist that they don’t want to put pot smokers in jail will go raving nuts if you try to pass a law that reduces the number of pot smokers who go to jail.
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