Steve has a giant Obama button at the top right of his site. One of Obama's core platform issues is universal health coverage in the United States.
Which do you think is easier: Ceasing to incarcerate marijuana users, or running a giant new universal entitlement? This post reads less like a serious inquiry into the complications of legalization and more like an apology for the administration's maintenance of the status quo.
Hear hear. I do not doubt that shit ain't easy. But that doesn't stop politicians from doing half-assed implementations of much more difficult projects, so I don't think that's any kind of excuse for not legalizing pot.
Difficulty must be weighed against importance - far more people care deeply about universal health coverage than legalization of marijuana, so the same amount of effort provides a far greater return in the former case.
Do you mean a far greater return in terms of votes? ("far more people care deeply...") I care fairly deeply about UHC, but mostly that they put some sensible cost ceilings on it.
Which do you think is easier: Ceasing to incarcerate marijuana users, or running a giant new universal entitlement? This post reads less like a serious inquiry into the complications of legalization and more like an apology for the administration's maintenance of the status quo.