Palin's Pot Problem

[The Straight Story]

Palin's Pot Problem

When it comes to questions about youthful marijuana use, Sarah Palin is no Slick Willie. “I can't claim a Bill Clinton and say that I never inhaled," the Republican vice presidential candidate told the Anchorage Daily News in 2006, before she was elected governor of Alaska.

Although Palin's handling of the issue scores higher on the candor meter than Clinton's, she has the same difficulty reconciling her personal experience with her policy positions, a problem also shared by former pot smoker Barack Obama. None of them has a persuasive answer to the question of why other Americans should be arrested for something they did with impunity.

Pot smokers who are arrested do not typically spend much time in jail. But as a 2007 report from the Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics noted, they pay a substantial cost that includes not only public humiliation and legal expenses but collateral sanctions such as “revocation or suspension of professional licenses, barriers to employment or promotion, loss of educational aid, driver's license suspension, and bars on adoption, voting and jury service."

According to figures released by the FBI this week, about 873,000 people were arrested on marijuana charges in the United States last year, a new record. Pot busts accounted for nearly half of the 1.8 million drug arrests; as usual, the vast majority, about 775,000, were for simple possession, as opposed to cultivation or sale.

http://patriotpost.us/opinion/entry.asp?entry_id=47510

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1. Is that why she wolfed down her lunch?

[Suji to Seoul]

2. DRUG ADDICT!!!! THROW HER IN PRISON!!!!

NOT FIT TO BE VICE PRESIDENT!!! SAME STANDARD REPUBLICANS USE!!!

DRUG ADDICT!!!


Sarah Palin as Dopey

on edit: How did she keep her figure with the post-pot hi munchies?

[LunaSea]

5. How did she keep her figure with the post-pot hi munchies?

Well, Wasilla IS the meth capital of Alaska.

[The Straight Story]

7. She should turn herself in

instead she just runs for office...

[asdjrocky]

3. Man I want some donuts. nt

[Union Thug]

4. Mindless hypocrisy. It's a great question - is she now a DRUG ADDICT???

A deplorable figure best characterized by the frothing, rabid conduct of those portrayed in REEFER MADNESS?

If not - as the conservatives will surely argue - and she is a normal, every day "every woman," then what does this say about our existing marijuana laws?

[Romulox]

6. This point is substantially blunted by the presence of Mr. Drug Czar on the Dem ticket.

And yes, the pun was intended. :smoke: