Drug War Is Over (If You Want It!): Hollyweed Edition

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Over the New Year's weekend, pranksters found their way to the Hollywood sign and mocked it up to pay tribute to Calfornia's November vote to legalize recreational marijuana.

Here's a map via Governing magazine that lays out where pot is legal and under what circumstances. It's interactive, so click through for full effect.

Governing

Especially after California's move, it's legitimate to say that the war on pot is decisively going against the prohibitionists. Having said that, there's still a ton of territory to be won and there remain massive actions that still need to happen: Laws in the 21 states that still ban all forms of pot need to change, legal banking practices need to be established in states that allow recreational and medical marijuana, the disposition of prisoners serving sentences for marijuana-related crime needs to be addressed, and more.

In 2017, activists will be especially busy in states such as Texas, Kentucky, and Missouri, which currently don't allow legal consumption, but also will be working to further liberalize laws in places such as New Jersey and Rhode Island. The question for all of us who believe that adults should be allowed to use marijuana legally is, to paraphrase John Kerry, Who will we let be the last person to die for this mistake? A more-pressing question for all Americans is, What will the federal response to state-level legalization be under a Trump administration. There are good reasons to be very worried. Watch now:

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Comments

[SIV]

There are good reasons to be very worried.

There are good reasons to be very optimistic as well. Donald J. Trump's long-time pre-campaign position on drugs was far more anti-prohibitionist than that of the 2016 Libertarian Party nominee.

[Rich]

And *who* is The Donald's pick for A.G.?

[Gene]

An admirer of Aslinger.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Which is why he nominated Drug War hardliner Jeff Sessions to be his chief law enforcement officer.

[SIV]

When has an AG not been a "drug war hardliner"?

[x'); DROP USER Tony;]

What a perpetually dishonest piece of shit you are.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Medical merry-wanna is legal in the Commonwealth of Pencil-vain-ya? Huh. I did not know that. Time to stick my balls in the microwave before the Ziggy Marley concert.

[Holger da Dane]

"Micro-waved balls" is not on the list. Sorry.

*Hands Fist an ice pack*

[Brochetta's magic (((pants)))]

Articles like this really do more to enforce the notion that libertarians are just Republicans who like weed more than all of the HitNRepublicans/yokeltarians ever could. The drug war not only isn't over, it's not even close to winding down. And this is an article that basically spits on the principles behind opposition to drug prohibition.

[SIV]

Your dentists can't phone in a narcotic 'script anymore. Have an abscess over a holiday? Thank Obama for your suffering.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Especially after California's move, it's legitimate to say that the war on pot is decisively going against the prohibitionists.

Uh Nick, did you actually *read* the marijuana law voters approved? I'd argue more freedom existed under prohibition than the gargantuan expansion of the police and regulatory state that the new law engendered as a trade off to legalization.

[straffinrun]

No way is dark green more chronic than light green.

[Anomalous]

Who's narrating that "5 Things Libertartians Should Be Nervous About in 2017" video? She needs to lose the vocal fry.

[UnCivilServant]

I'm sorry, but that map is deceptive. New Yorks "Medical Marijuana" program has a ruleset that makes it impossible for anyone to produce any crop whatsoever.

[Conchfritters]

Map needs updated. Iowa, of all places, has legalized for medicinal purposes.

[Emmerson Biggins]

Somebody fix the map legend. "No laws legalizing marijuana" makes no sense. Laws aren't the solution here, they are the problem.

[Marty Feldman's Eyes]

Drug War Is Over (If You Want It!): Hollywood Edition

And yet, I still can't buy weed.

[chanyuan]

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[Rockabilly]

Sessions, where in the US Constitution does it authorize the war on drugs?

Well, jackass, where does it?

Or are you just another alt-left communist who thinks the government has unlimited power?

[Fat Hubie]

Oops! Too late, it does seem to...