By Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone (via Reader Supported News), published January 4, 2014
With all the other nonsense going on in this country, it’s amazing (but of course expected) that anyone with other things to do would find the time to denounce Colorado’s legal marijuana experiment.
Yet here they come, luminaries like MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, publishing mogul Tina Brown, and Yale blowhard-in-residence David Brooks, all hot to build a Wall of Decency around the New American Menace.
They are the 21st-century version of the Anti-Saloon League, gathering now to denounce the perils of the legal recreational joint
Brown put it this way, in a tweet:
“. . . legal weed contributes to us being a fatter, dumber, sleepier nation even less able to compete with the Chinese.”
Right. Because marijuana, not China’s bottomless supply of slave labor, is what’s responsible for the West’s growing trade imbalance.
Scarborough also went the “pot makes you stupid” route, although he essentially admitted to achieving that intellectual distinction himself without the benefit of even trying the drug:
“I mean, seriously, it just makes you dumb. Pot just makes you dumb . . . [Although] never once did I say, ‘Hey man, that looks like something I want to do . . .”