Letters to the Editor
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Lynx that's not exactly what I said
But since you're into making simplistic assumptions based on very little evidence, I guess it would be pointless to discuss the issue with YOU.
We're having to shut down state parks and beaches in California by the way.
Do you think marijuana eradication is a luxury that we can still afford?
Hey, let's fly giant helicopters filled with highly flammable fuel over tinder dry forests to look for pot.
And let's keep doing that no matter how the price of helicopter fuel goes up.
Sure, that sounds like a fiscally wise thing to do right now!
How many beaches and parks do we have to close to afford it? How many rangers do we have fire? How many environmental studies have to be shut down because the rangers have been fired?
Let's look at what else we're doing:
We're spending billions and billions of dollars to keep the price of opium as high as possible, right? That is our strategy, basically.
But who enjoys the positive benefits of the increased price of opium?
The Taliban in Afghanistan.
And we're spending billions and billions of dollars to fight them!
So we spend billions of dollars to make them rich, and then we spend billions of dollars more to fight an enemy that gets richer every day.
Does that sound like good economic policy in a global recession?