Choice and Consequences
In the Beginning...
In the beginning, choices were unlimited and consequences were a natural result. Eve made a bad choice, and we suffered the consequences(or so the story goes).
People living in the wilds still enjoy a large degree of freedom to choose. And, they suffer the consequences, good or bad. The fruits of their labor, or the wrath brought on by their folly.
As one moves into suburbia, choices are diminished. Residents of unincorporated suberbs generally enjoy more choices than city folks. Move into the Metropolis and your choices disappear rapidly. This is not unnatural, and many of these choices are given up voluntarily.
Choice and The Drug Issue
letter to San Jose Mercury News
Your Silver Pen Award for "Foes of medical marijuana send wrong message"(Joshua M. Sinoway, SJMN 27May) is well chosen.
As the Libertarian "write-in" Candidate for the 21st Assembly District, I would like to expand on that letter:
As adults, my wife and I both take "red wine", with 13% alcohol, on a daily basis. This is "self-prescribed" and we have determined it to be beneficial to our health. For some arbitrary reason, our "choice" to do this is not illegal. Anyone familiar with Prohibition knows it has not always been so!
Many members of our society can not function without some sort of mind altering drug(One needs only look at the Ridalin prescriptions handed out to children in the public schools). What about those who choose cigarettes with "nicotine" as a pacifier?
I personally know of an adult individual who is collecting Social Security disability benefits(and smoking a pack a day) Allowed the luxury of "self-prescription" of marijuana, and the freedom to grow it for his own use, this individual would be self supporting, and would break the cigarette habit.
Marijuana should be in the same category as red wine and cigarettes. You make the choice, you take the consequences(good or bad). Jail time for "inhaling" is absurd!
Jack Hickey - Candidate for 21st Assembly District
Why would politicians "decriminalize drugs" when many of them get their biggest contributions from the "scum" that thrive in the black market created by ill-founded laws? See Selections from the Senate Committee Report on Drugs, Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy chaired by Senator John F. Kerry
Do you enjoy being labelled a criminal, simply because you choose "alternative medicine", which just happens to be illegal?
Check out the trevails of the "Cognitive Enhancement Research Institute"a group pursuing "alternative medicine"
ACLU position on decriminalization.
The Role of Government
Remember --- you can always choose to delegate.
Don't let the government make those choices for you!
To be continued...