In the ideal world

[olegvolk]

Originally published at VolkStudio Blog. You can comment here or there.

My friend Boris Karpa is fond of Tim Moen’s campaign slogan: “I want gay people to be able to protect their marijuana plants with guns.” I don’t think he is thinking far enough into the bright future.

If pot was legal, we’d no more need to protect a pot patch than a row of

Comments

[ilcylic]

As usual, we are in agreement. :)

There's a reason the stuff is nicknamed "weed".

[ilcylic]

Government prohibitions enable and promote rational criminal behavior by enforcing arbitrary laws and creating perverse incentives. Reduce the number and scope of prohibitions and you will see a massive reduction in crime.

The inverse corollary of this is what always confuses me about "anti-corporatists". The same people who hold up protest signs that "Black lives matter" (which, please note, I do not disagree with, my point here is the distrust of cops; The government violence source) insist that the need is to give the government more power, to keep corporations in check. But corporations don't have police who can gun people down and get a paid vacation while a powerful union holds press conferences glowering at the public if the DA looks like he even might think of pressing charges. The whole reason that corporations seek to capture politicians is because the government has the power to harm their competitors, at a massively discount rate.

Take away that power, and you take away the incentive to meddle in politics.