Tom Tancredo Backs Legal Weed: 'Marijuana Prohibition Has Failed Us'

[Logical]

Tom Tancredo is many things to many people: a conservative firebrand, staunch anti-immigration activist , a 2010 Colorado gubernatorial candidate, a former Republican congressman, but last week he took on another provocative title -- marijuana legalization advocate.

Tancredo, a surprising ally of the progressive movement to legalize marijuana, wrote a column for The Gazette on the "pro" side of a marijuana legalization debate. Colorado Attorney General John Suthers served as the "con" point of view for the piece. Tancredo writes:

I am endorsing Amendment 64 not despite my conservative beliefs, but because of them.
Throughout my career in public policy and in public office, I have fought to reform or eliminate wasteful and ineffective government programs. There is no government program or policy I can think of that has failed in such a unique way as marijuana prohibition.

Our nation is spending tens of billions of dollars annually in an attempt to prohibit adults from using a substance objectively less harmful than alcohol.

Yet marijuana is still widely available in our society. We are not preventing its use; we are merely ensuring that all of the profits from the sale of marijuana (outside the medical marijuana system) flow to the criminal underground.

More at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/25/tom-tancredo-backs-legal-_n_1913192.html

[kestrel91316]

1. You know a RWer is desperate then they back cannabis legalization.

Of course he doesn't really mean it. He just knows that can garner him some votes.

[niyad]

2. hmm, wonder if he has financial interest in any of the clinics around here.

[spanone]

3. any idiot, including tancredo, can see that.

[rppper]

4. Gee Tom....no sh@t huh?

Now let's back track 50 years and provide restitution to everyone who had non violent weed prosecutions and sentences....

On that note maybe an oh-zee or several will loosen his ass up....hell, he'd be championing Che' Guevara day in a year....