I think states are incubators for public policy. The Federal Government should absolutely get involved in this conversation. But I also think that we've spent so much money on a terrible Drug War that involvement should probably be sitting back and allowing a natural experiment to work. Find out if this decreases crime and reduce our criminal justice costs without hurting folks, or does our prohibition on weed do some good.
I would be very very surprised if empiric evidence showed that the Drug War led to better outcomes. But sometimes empiric evidence can be counter-intuitive.
Practically speaking, we stopped prosecuting sodomy cases decades before Lawrence vs Texas. There is nothing that says the Federal Government has to spend their limited FBI budget busting WA/CO's balls on this.
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Date: 9/11/12 02:36 (UTC)I think states are incubators for public policy. The Federal Government should absolutely get involved in this conversation. But I also think that we've spent so much money on a terrible Drug War that involvement should probably be sitting back and allowing a natural experiment to work. Find out if this decreases crime and reduce our criminal justice costs without hurting folks, or does our prohibition on weed do some good.
I would be very very surprised if empiric evidence showed that the Drug War led to better outcomes. But sometimes empiric evidence can be counter-intuitive.
Practically speaking, we stopped prosecuting sodomy cases decades before Lawrence vs Texas. There is nothing that says the Federal Government has to spend their limited FBI budget busting WA/CO's balls on this.