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There are many, many good reasons to legalize marijuana.  First, of course, is because it is the right thing to do.  In a democracy, it is the government’s job to do the will of the people.  Since the people don’t agree on shit, it’s probably best for the government to just focus on fixing the

Jose Guerena with wife and children

potholes, paying the teachers and the cops, and making sure nobody cheats at the lottery.

I’m not just in favor of separation of church and state, I am in favor of separation between culture and state.  Why does the President of the United States throw out the 1st baseball and roll Easter eggs on the White House lawn?  It is not the job of the state to decide which sports and holidays are important, whether or not we become a nation of potheads, or any cultural matter at all.  That’s up to the collective will of individual people, it is an expression of democracy in its purest form, and government should stay the hell out.

Then there are all the hempster arguments: cloth, clothes, biomass, vegetable oil, nice crunchy seeds for your salad.

Then there is the pharmaceutical argument.  Now, I know a lot of potheads who claim that it’s a cure for damned near everything.  I’ll leave the final decisions up to doctors and scientists, but I know it sure as hell reduces stress, and that can cause a reduction in a lot of other problems, too.

Then there is the fundraiser argument.  Now, do the math.  Legalizing and taxing marijuana is not going to raise enough revenue to keep the U.S. government afloat, but it would be in the plus column.  Also, a hell of a lot of money would be saved.

Mostly, though, if it were legal, swat teams from 4 different departments  would have had no excuse to burst into Jose Guereno’s house yesterday in Pima County, Arizona, at 9:30 in the morning, and shoot him 70 times.

(p.s. they didn’t even find any pot)