Salt City Sinner

posted on 1/23/2019 by the Salt City Sinner Crow! Nobody likes to eat it. For one thing, corvids are highly intelligent and social animals, and for another they taste awful (or so I’ve heard). That said, I’m a fellow who prides myself on my ability to admit when I’m wrong, and thus I present an instance (one of many, but we’ll tackle them one at a time) when I’ve been wrong. Mostly. The year was 2015 ! The newfangled “jazz music” craze was ripping up the airwaves, and women were wearing short skirts and voting! In actuality, 2015 only feels like 100 years ago, due to the horrific time distortion field we’ve been living in recently. Here’s what I had to say then about Senator Mark Madsen’s attempts to decriminalize the devil’s lettuce for medical use:   I will not argue for a single second that [2015’s failed legalization effort] isn't progress – it is. And Senator Mark Madsen's bill regarding medical marijuana only failed by a single vote.  …All of that as...

posted on 5/16/2015 by the Salt City Sinner I'm going to do the full disclosure thing right out of the gate: I'm a proponent of legalizing drugs. Not just “decriminalizing” “soft” drugs like marijuana – I mean that I favor completely legal heroin, methamphetamine, PCP, the whole shebang. I favor ending prohibition and regulation for both philosophical and practical reasons. On the philosophical side, I believe that people have the right to make informed decisions about the destiny of their own bodies, even if I might personally disagree with some of their choices. This is actually a fairly popular position when it comes to things like alcohol, caffeine, tobacco and, yes, marijuana – once you venture outside of the average person's comfort zone by mentioning meth, cocaine, or heroin, support for fully ending drug prohibition erodes, but the “social harm” argument against full legalization is so applicable to things like alcohol and tobacco (not to mention trans fats ...