The last time I visited Colorado (except
for the Denver Airport) was in 1966 when I was in high school. Mom wanted to visit her brother there and
instill in us kids an appreciation of the West with a mandatory detour to
Jackson Hole, Wyoming. It’s a long trip
from Kansas City on I-70 to Denver and as we drew near I couldn’t make out if what
I saw was the mountains or clouds appearing on the western horizon. Colorado has changed a lot since then.
Voters there - and I suspect a
minority – have legalized marijuana and the Pot Heads and Left are tripping out
on their latest victory of being allowed to legally trip out. Their victory followed the same tried and
true 1-2-3 knockout method they regularly use: legal/vote challenge; state
challenges; and final federal acquiescence.
Washington State is next and so forth.
The demoralization of the majority there and elsewhere in America bodes
ill for the republic. The Left’s victory,
I suspect, took place in a vacuum because the moral and practical issues should
have energized the Right.
As it always does, the Left softened
up Colorado’s cash-hungry politicians with a theoretical promise of
$500,000,000 going to the economy or the state; no mention of adverse effects
like murderous car wrecks, the human wreckage of addiction and misery, or the
Mafia taking over the competition. The
economic benefits of vice was compelling, but you could say the same thing for
prostitution (I’m sure they will or have) and gambling – sorry, they already
won that battle as well.
The next logical step for Colorado
is Head Shops or do they already have them?
What’s next -Opium Dens? They too,
can make a lot of money for the state. By
the way, what does “private” use mean?
Can a Colorado policeman smoke dope in his squad car? Can convicts use marijuana in the privacy of
their prison cells? Can national
guardsmen get high before morning formation?
What about smoking pot in a nuclear weapons facility?
Pandora’s Box was never empty. If you’re dumb enough to open it, you’ll find
out why America’s Old Guard was right all along, but the times belong to the
Hedonists and their legions of followers whose only clarion call is: “If it
feels good, do it!” In the meantime, if
you want to visit Colorado, I-70 will be pretty crowded with unusually mellow strangers
and that image you see on the horizon will most likely be pot smoke, so don’t
forget to turn on your fog lights.
