Right-wing congressman wants to step up war on pot

If stupidity means doing the same failed act over and over and expecting different results, then whoever supports this proposal is either stupid or they're actively trying to prop up drug gangs.

Right-wing Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Illinois) is channeling Phil Gramm by encouraging even more ruinous penalties for minor drug offenses, even as he supports deregulation of Big Business.

Kirk plans to introduce legislation imposing 25 years in prison just for selling small amounts of a form of marijuana deemed more potent.

America is only now emerging from the worst economic times in 75 years, and the health care system is broken, yet this idiot is worried about a little weed?

The insane War on Drugs is in fact a price support for violent drug cartels. We've all seen how draconian drug laws have actually heightened gang violence. Those who doubt this must have been living under a rock for years.

An admitted child rapist just got sentenced to only a few months in jail. Yet Mark Kirk wants people to do 25 years for pot! That's his idea of "justice."

I'd love to see what the "regulation for thee, not for me" crowd has to say about this. Whatever excuse they come up with, it's got to be mighty laughable.

(Source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-kirk-marijuanajun15,0,4381974.story)