Dumbass du jour

Campbell just wants to give up

By JIM HARRISON

Jul 15 2007

At the risk of making a character judgment, Larry Campbell is a few cards short of a full deck.

The former Vancouver, mayor, one-time coroner and now Liberal lackey — er, senator — has been known for his harebrained thinking.

The injection centre for downtown eastside junkies in Vancouver is one of his favorites. But Campbell is going too far calling for the legalization of marijuana.

Too many resources wasted on too many people, he says, using small quanitities of the drug.

Well, if law enforcement can’t do the job as effectively as some people would like, the answer, according to this guy, is to throw one’s hands up and legalize the crime.

Can’t get people to buy into the notion that marijuana is a problem? Let’s legalize it, tax the hell out of it and at least get some benefit for health care, or some other program that might benefit society, instead of letting organized crime in on all the big money.

For those who are weak-willed, perhaps it’s a way out. But illicit drugs aren’t good for people, regardless of how harmless some might think they are.

If marijuana doesn’t impair, it can’t be much good for the respiratory system, or what few brain cells those who smoke it have left.

If it’s marijuana today, why not auto theft tomorrow?

People like Campbell seem to want to take the path of least resistance — no matter how wrong it might be for the common good.

Why do these intellectually lazy prohibitionists try to compare smoking a joint with CRIMES like auto theft? Oh right, I forgot, because morons keep falling for it. Unbelievable.