Osler's Razor

Excellent. Sound. Concise. Compelling.

Your piece is the obverse of the coin of common sense.

The reverse is that maryjane, like alcohol and tobacco, is for many (most) a deleterious drug, but, what the hell.

Those Denver celebrants are not yipping it up over the potential liberation of folks like Weldon. I could join in that celebration.

No, they are celebrating the liberty to do something that is not very smart, without regard for personal and societal costs and consequences. Many of them, I'm supposing', advocate and would cheer the legalization of opium, heroin, and the over-the-counter sale of presently controlled substances.

Now, there's a thought.

Legalizing these drugs would go a long way toward reducing black on black ghetto shootings and, theoretically, at least, lead to safer neighborhoods for millions of sober and peaceful folks who have to live among violent tradesmen of in hard stuff.

It would also help stifle class warfare by putting the poor users on the same footing as the rich users.

The war-on-drugs has proved to be a real, hot shooting war, and it's not just the combatants who are getting hurt. There has been an awful lot of collateral damage.

So, why not legalize the sale and use of all mind bending and numbing drugs? If the war-on-drugs is lost, why continue to hunker down in a bunker trying with very indifferent success to limit self abuse choices to marijuana, tobacco and alcohol? Where is the logic in that?

There is a bundle to be saved in lawyers fees and incarceration expense if we go all the way. Weldon's million will Derksenize into real money in no time at all.