Short Answer: John Kerry
Long Answer: If you like the job George W. Bush is doing as President, you should go ahead and vote for him. But if you ask HIGH TIMES, that's a bad idea. We think he lied about Iraq being a war of last resort, and that's too big a lie to let pass. Now, maybe you have faith in the President, and don't think he would lie about a war. Fair enough. But first, stop and think about America's other war, the one we're fighting (and losing) in Colombia, the one that targets and arrests cancer patients at gunpoint, the one that's filling our for-profit prisons, the one that's denying first-offense non-violent pot smokers college loans, the one we know to be nothing but a big lie, a lie that's grown bigger and bigger since Nixon first told it as part of his election campaign in 1968: The War on Drugs.
Let's say it plain: The War on Drugs is bullshit. And, to borrow a cliche, now more than ever the War on Drugs is bullshit. Every dollar the Bush administration has spent on television ads blaming pot smokers for 9/11, or paying Tommy Chong's rent, is one less dollar spent to secure a port, put body armor on a soldier, or hunt down Osama Bin Laden. This seems obvious, until you remember that the Drug War is not about reality, and it's not about winning. Everyone knows it can't be won, but it can continually sustain the Drug Warriors, people like Bush's Drug Czar John Walters, who consistently claims that marijuana is more dangerous than heroin.
In the 1980's, John Kerry exposed the hypocrisy of these Drug Warriors. While serving on the Senate's Foreign Relations Commission, he headed an investigation that turned up extensive evidence of drug deals involving the CIA and the Contra rebels in Nicaragua, evidence that pointed directly to the drugs-for-arms-for-hostages scheme at the heart of the Iran Contra Scandal. Kerry wasn't afraid to take on the dirty dealers who run our nation's corrupt Drug War, just as he took on the corrupt masters of war in the Pentagon after returning from duty in Vietnam.
And in the other corner, wearing the red trunks, we have GWB, who took the easy way out of 'Nam, supporting the war he would let someone else fight (with a little help from Daddy's friends). After securing W. a spot in the "champagne unit" of the Texas National Guard, Bush's father would go on to head the CIA during its freewheeling 70's days of military coups and international narcotics dealing, and was promoted to Vice President by the time the agency's Contra connection was exposed by John Kerry.
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http://www.hightimes.com/ht/news/content.php?bid=278&aid=4:smoke:
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