Bill Buckley has long been a proponent for the legalization of marijuana, based primarily upon the obscenely disproportionate amount of resources that are committed to its prohibition.
In his latest column for his magazine, he revisits his long-ago-established thoughts. The offering is classic Buckley - full of amusing, ehem, circumlocution.
The laws aren't exactly indefensible, because practically nothing is, and the thunderers who tell us to stay the course can always find one man or woman who, having taken marijuana, moved on to severe mental disorder. But that argument, to quote myself, is on the order of saying that every rapist began by masturbating.
Then, and he is one of the finest at this, Buckley, in his very next line, abruptly becomes curt:
General rules based on individual victims are unwise.
I don't know that much more needs to be said.
Incidentally,
Buckley hands over the reigns of his magazine tonight, as he relinquishes his shares to a board of self-appointed trustees.