From Mary Grabar, “conservative professor of English, commentator, fiction writer, and poet,” on why alcohol is OK but marijuana isn’t even though it tends to have a milder effect:
That’s exactly what the left wants: a nation of young zombies — indifferent, unengaged, and uncaring. They provide amenable subjects to indoctrination. Alcohol may fuel fights, but marijuana, as its advocates like to point out, makes the user mellow. The toker wants to make love, not war.
I guess she’s nailed us, hasn’t she? Back to the drawing board, boys and girls. Via Mona.