cannabis corner
by Paul Danish
Chris Christie: Still stuck on stupid after all these years
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here he goes again. Mob never made it to New Jersey. A couple weeks ago, New Jersey Calling marijuana a “poison” is an affront to the Governor Chris Christie was speaking at a commonly understood meaning of the word. To do so forum on substance abuse hosted by the New is intellectually dishonest and dangerous. When you Jersey Hospital Association in Princeton call something a poison that doesn’t fall within the when the subject of marijuana legalization came up. commonly understood meaning of the word, you The mere mention of the subject Governor’s Office/Tim Larsen causes Christie’s head to explode, and right on cue, it did. “This is beyond stupidity,” he said of legalization. “We are in the midst of the public health crisis on opiates. But people are saying pot’s OK. This is nothing more than crazy liberals who want to say everything’s OK. “People like Nick Scutari and Steve Sweeney and Phil Murphy (New Jersey pols who favor legalization) want to bring this poison, legalized, into this state under the premise that, well, it doesn’t matter because people can buy it illegally anyway,” Christie continued. “Then why not legalize heroin? I mean, their argument fails just on that basis. Let’s legalize cocaine. Let’s legalize angel dust. Let’s legalize all of it. What’s the difference?” Good point there, governor. And while we’re at it, let’s legalize alcohol, which, like hero- degrade the meaning of the word as a warning. in, cocaine, and angel dust — and unlike marijuana — For instance, if you were to slap a skull and crossis a substance several thousand people a year fatally bones on soft drinks and label them poisons (as some overdose on. And, also unlike marijuana, those subof Boulder’s more unhinged nanny-statists and food stances are physiologically addictive, and figure in an cranks probably would like to do, you’d take a big step enormous amount of violent behavior. toward conflating them with, say, paint thinner, which Oh, come to think of it, we did legalize alcohol, or makes people regard the warnings on things like paintre-legalize alcohol after we banned it for 12 years. We thinner more casually. re-legalized it because prohibition’s consequences It’s the same with drugs. When guys like Christie turned out to be more onerous than alcohol’s. Among call marijuana a poison and conflate it with heroin and those consequences was the rise of organized crime, a methamphetamines, they devalue their warnings about point Christie seems to keep overlooking. Maybe the the hard drugs, which really are dangerous.
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And in the case of marijuana, the devaluation will be almost instantaneous. That’s because over half of American adults have tried marijuana at least once in their lives, and most have concluded from first-hand experience that when it comes to pot, Christie doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Christie’s attitudes on pot really matter if the Trump administration is serious about fighting opioid abuse. That’s because Trump appointed him to chair a committee to come up with a strategy for fighting the opioid epidemic. If Christie doesn’t know the difference between marijuana and opioids, any strategy he comes up with will be ludicrously delusional. When it comes to marijuana, for Christie, “beyond stupid” is an inspirational state. The guy’s still stuck on stupid after all these years. He’s stuck on stupid politically too. Christie’s attitude toward marijuana legalization in New Jersey is “over my dead body.” “You’re damned right I’m the only impediment [to legalizing marijuana in New Jersey],” he recently crowed. “And I am going to remain the only impediment until January of 2018.” Pro-legalization lawmakers are planning to run a legalization bill in the state legislature in 2018 as soon as he leaves the building. (New Jersey’s gubernatorial and legislative elections will take place in November 2017. A statewide poll found 58 percent of New Jerseyans support replacing prohibition with regulation — and that’s according to a poll taken in 2015. It’s almost certainly higher today. More recent polling puts Christie’s approval ratings at around 20 percent. The Marijuana Policy Project says polling suggests he’s “out of touch with his constituents.” And how.
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