MB Civic

Matt T in RS ..

With all the other nonsense going on in this country, it’s amazing (but of course expected) that anyone with other things to do would find the time to denounce Colorado’s legal marijuana experiment. Yet here they come, luminaries like MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, publishing mogul Tina Brown, and Yale blowhard-in-residence David Brooks, all hot to build a Wall of Decency around the New American Menace. They are the 21st-century version of the Anti-Saloon League, gathering now to denounce the perils of the legal recreational joint. Brown put it this way, in a tweet:

. . . legal weed contributes to us being a fatter, dumber, sleepier nation even less able to compete with the Chinese

Right. Because marijuana, not China’s bottomless supply of slave labor, is what’s responsible for the West’s growing trade imbalance.

Brooks I would expect. Tina Brown?? Used to think she was ok…. read more