
A word of warning: this is a horrible story.
And by “horrible,” I mean it’s produced genuine horror in me. It’s taken me a couple of days to write this post, because it’s required me to do what I might call “soul-searching,” if only I had a soul. If you’re a fan of the kind of shallow snark I usually trade in, you may want to ignore this salvo and move on to our regularly-scheduled programming. But if, like me, you’re the slightest bit conflicted over the role that drugs play in our society, well, here it is…
Last December, a 20-year-old kid plowed his pick-up truck into a cop who’d pulled over a motorist (also 20-years-old) during a routine traffic stop. The motorist was killed. The cop, who was literally thrown out of his boots, was paralyzed. The kid driving the pick-up truck — who also happened to be stoned out of his gourd — was charged with vehicular manslaughter. And last Tuesday, the owner of the medicinal marijuana shop where the kid bought “a large amount of marijuana and marijuana edibles” was arrested by Federal agents.
On the surface, the perfect story to turn medical marijuana into a wedge issue, the hippies on one side, law-and-order types on the others. But that’s just if you stick to the surface.
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