{"id":1762,"date":"2009-12-13T08:42:03","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T08:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/george-will-medical-marijuana-and-legalization\/"},"modified":"2009-12-13T08:42:03","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T08:42:03","slug":"george-will-medical-marijuana-and-legalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarianism\/george-will-medical-marijuana-and-legalization.php","title":{"rendered":"George Will, Medical Marijuana, and Legalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Will&nbsp;writes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/11\/27\/AR2009112702326.html?hpid=opinionsbox1\">an interesting column<\/a> on medical marijuana.&nbsp; <\/p><p>Will argues that a large fraction of \"medical\" marijuana purchases&nbsp;are in fact for recreational use, a claim no reasonable person disputes.&nbsp; Will believes that widespread circumvention of the law's official intent undermines respsect for the rule of law, and I agree.<\/p><p>Will also suggests that estimates of the tax revenue states can collect from medical marijuana are probably inflated; my own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prohibitioncosts.org\/\">estimates<\/a> suggest he is right on this as well.<\/p><p>But the most intriguing issue is Will's last sentence:<\/p><blockquote><p>By mocking the idea of lawful behavior, legalization of medical marijuana may be more socially destructive than full legalization.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>This last sentence leaves us hanging: is Will advocating legalization, or arguing that legalization is undesirable and medicalization is even worse?&nbsp;<\/p><p>If Will is true to his small government, individual responsibility ideals (which I share), he must surely advocate full legalization.&nbsp; To the best of my knowledge, however, he has yet to do that in so many words.&nbsp; <\/p><p>Now would be a good time.<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b243d_6379328854053402400-1620108264527641773?l=jeffreymiron.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Will&nbsp;writes an interesting column on medical marijuana.&nbsp; Will argues that a large fraction of \"medical\" marijuana purchases&nbsp;are in fact for recreational use, a claim no reasonable person disputes.&nbsp; Will believes that widespread circumvention of the law's official intent undermines &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarianism\/george-will-medical-marijuana-and-legalization.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarianism"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}