Snoop Dogg, Ayn Rand, & Amnesty for Immigrant Marijuana
Libertarian columnist Ron Hart recounts his travels:
On this trip to L.A., I sensed that there is a growing, but still closeted, group of entertainers who will confess to being libertarian after a drink or two. They tell you this with faces that say, "Please, I beg of you, just don't tell Clive Davis, Harvey Weinstein or Stephen Spielberg."
None other than Snoop Dogg, whose lyrics might expose him as a free-market capitalist, famously said that he had his "mind on my money and my money on my mind" (Ayn Rand would be proud of him). Snoop is leading the change for celebs.
Furthering the evolution of thought by Snoop Dogg, he boldly came out and said he backed libertarian Ron Paul for president. Snoop agrees with Ron Paul on a broad range of positions, from the legalization of pot to making marijuana legal. He also likes Paul's immigration policy in that if a bail of pot washes up an U.S. shore from Mexico, it is immediately granted asylum.
It may not be raining libertarianism in the entertainment business, but thank Snoop Dogg for drizzle.