The Yang to the Yin of Last Night's Musical Post

"Ganja Smuggling" - Eek A Mouse

Legalize it (and tax it) - a deficit reduction plan we can all get behind.

Bonus track in the same vein - "Police in Helicopters" - John Holt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGCbgpIf3E&feature=related

Kicking it old school in a rub a dub style.   (Picture is not actually me.)

Comments

[MR Bill]

More Hank III, combining Yin and Yang:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6B-X6EEiHE

Whiskey, Wine and Women

As I watch the sun
set slowly I hold back the tears
And I can't help but wonder
why the lord had to put me here

Caused I've raised hell
All night long
And I've seen a good
man go wrong
And I can't help
The way that I am
Cause the whiskey weed and women
had the upper hand

[Lisa Simeone]

Legalize it all, not just marijuana! (but I know, that'll never come to pass, at least not in my lifetime)

Where did you get that business card? That's not for real, is it?? I'm dying here!

[Sir Charles]

MR Bill,

That's priceless -- very nice alliteration too.

Lisa,

I found that on a random website that I never frequent. They claim that it's real. I'd prefer to think so rather than do any actual research.

[bigbadwolf]

is it that i don't marijuana songs beyond legalize it or that the alcohol on my brain makes drinking songs easier for me to come up with? maybe i am just missing a whole lot of references in songs i like.

i don't know about legalization of everything. marijuana is a no-brainer. heroin seems a fairly easy one. crack and meth give me great pause. how would it work: are we talking a milton friedman style market (that didn't work out so well in some other areas) or are we saying the government should manufacture and sell meth? or award licenses? allow big pharma to make it and doctors to prescribe? how, if at all do we control for the quantity an individual gets. pot seems relatively easy on quantity---one is more likely to be snoozing than jonesing.

our current policies clearly fail, but i think a step-at-a-time, substance-by-substance consideration of legalization and what form(s)legalization might take would be a better approach. so i'd start tomorrow with legalizing pot and cutting back the was aspects of the drug war and get to work thinking about what to do with the rest

[low-tech cyclist]

i think a step-at-a-time, substance-by-substance consideration of legalization and what form(s)legalization might take would be a better approach.

I agree, bbw. I think 'step at a time' should apply with respect to each drug: we should look for baby steps short of full legalization and commercialization, to see if they suffice.

Take marijuana, for instance. I'd love to see what would happen if we continued to outlaw the sale of marijuana, but allowed people to cultivate up to, say, a 20 sq. ft. garden plot (or equivalent indoor space under grow-lamps) with dope. Grow it, smoke it, give it to your friends, but continue to bust dealers and their customers. I think you'd see the bottom drop out of the marijuana-dealing business, because it's so damned easy to grow.

Besides, I'm very leery of opening up one more recreational drug to the subtle pressures of commercialization. Legalizing dope itself, I'm OK with. Creating a situation where corporations are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to get you to smoke more dope, I'm not OK with.

[big bad wolf]

ltc, i really like that suggestion.

[Lisa Simeone]

Legalize it all, and regulate it. People are going to use stuff no matter what, and you all know that. Human nature is not going to change. If tobacco weren't legal, people would be killing each other over that. Just like they did with alcohol. Legalize.