Dying seniors to be denied weed

Now that we’re skirting the precipice of a depression, if we haven’t already fallen in, we should have some new respect for those men and women who grew up in the ’20s and ’30s. Be a cynic about that Greatest Generation title all you want — it is a damn fine way to sell books — but the people in my grandparents’ generation survived crap economies, fought off Nazism and had to watch their kids enshrine that sniveling punk John Lennon. Yeah, sure John, you stay in bed until there’s world peace. Douche. So now that the few remaining old warriors are spending their twilight years fighting their own rapidly corrupted organs, can’t we finally give them a break? I guess not. Because politicians are gutless.

Once again, a bill has been introduced in the Missouri House of Representatives that

would legalize the use of medical marijuana. And once again, it’s

probably going nowhere because nobody wants to vote “yes” on anything

related to a reasonable drug policy. They all know that anyone who does

so will be immediately attacked as pro-junkie when it comes time for

reelection. It’s a great implicit admission that they suspect most

voters are gullible and every one of them would do the same to their

opponents. Not to oversell it, but this type of incestuous shame-fuck

holds back the progression of all humanity.