Comments on: David Frum’s “Bad Parent” Argument Against Marijuana Legalization

By: BeerNotWar

BeerNotWar — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 05:09:08 +0000

David Frum is entering the “Beltway Moderate Republican Zone” of reasonable Republicans who don’t hate gays and don’t want to invade every single country and think some taxes are sometimes ok. I’m concerned this letter is the first sign of a Villager backlash against legalization. So far all the momentum has been on the legalization side — at least for the last few years. The establishment may have woken up and taken notice after the two initiatives passed, and this may be their opening salvo.

I expect more David Brooks, Tom Friedman types to chime in with similary “reasonable” yet completely condescending opnion pieces telling us why we should continue to imprison thousands for behavior no more harmful than what millions do every day in producing, selling and using alcohol and tobacco.

At this point I haven’t seen anything to suggest the Feds are going to tolerate the production and sale of marijuana. We have a big fight ahead to make sure they honor our wishes. I’ve mailed my state representatives to make sure they push the Governor to draft a good set of regulations and fight the Feds to enact them.

By: Teddy Partridge

Teddy Partridge — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 03:29:07 +0000

Yes, this.

By: Teddy Partridge

Teddy Partridge — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 03:28:49 +0000

Is Frum worried his children won’t be able to get welfare or live in public housing? Surely his children understand that as offspring of the privileged rich in America, their drug busts will be worked out without recourse to incarceration.

They simply don’t tell him they toke, because he’s square, and Canadian.

By: nonpartisanliberal

nonpartisanliberal — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 01:03:05 +0000

David Frum helped sell mass murder as a speechwriter for Boy George Bush. Ethical clarity is not his forte.

By: tammanytiger

tammanytiger — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 22:57:17 +0000

Someone should tell David Frum that unsupervised use of prescription drugs–which, by definition, are legal–is now considered a much bigger public-health problem among teenagers than their recreational use of marijuana.

By: textynn

textynn — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:36:44 +0000

If Marijuana makes bad parents, booze and big pharma drugs make insanely bad parents and in many cases, dead ones.

By: FlyingTooLow

FlyingTooLow — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:23:28 +0000

Well said.

By: onitgoes

onitgoes — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:23:19 +0000

I’ve found that the argument that makes the biggest impression is: “Marijuana is illegal. Stay away.” I think many other parents have found the same thing…

WTF? On what planet is Frum living? Planet Majorus Denialus?

Gimme a break. I’m an old hippie. My ‘rents tole me that shit at least 7 centuries ago. Of course, like Big Dawg Clintin, I never inhaled… much!

What a load. I also remember the frying egg ads about your brains on drugs. That REALLY made a huge difference, as well.

It would be comical for Frum to poop out this drivel if he was doing it a comedy schtick (and if, you know, he had the ability to make it really funny).

As it is, it’s just useless, mind-numbingly teh stoopit b.s.

Agree with a prior comment about how ‘rents need to discuss the uses of various substances, such as booze, cigs, pot & other drugs, with their kids starting early. And make the discussions be reasoned and reasonable. Simply stating that pot is illegal and leaving it at that is ridiculous.

No doubt Frum’s kids do the Eddie Haskell schtick on their idiot father and then go do what they’re gonna doobie.

By: norecovery

norecovery — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:22:00 +0000

Assuming it were legal, I would give young people all the information available on the behavior effects and physical side effects, let them try it, and discuss peer pressure — so they will know what to expect. The same goes for alcohol. I think the key for a young person’s healthy adjustment to drugs is to view them as a stimulant within a social context, rather than a personal intoxicant for merely “getting high”. Medical marijuana is an entirely different subject, and should be dispensed and regulated differently.

By: geraldo

geraldo — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:19:37 +0000

You know what Mr. Frum?

“It’s illegal” doesn’t keep your kids away from pot.

It keeps them from telling you about it.

You fucking simpleton.