Jeff Brandenberger thinks that economic growth is a generally good thing.\u00a0 The self-described DFLer and ELCA Lutheran works a job in the private sector and would like the school system to suck less.<\/p>\n
“Huh?”, you might say, before rejoining “Big friggin’ deal!”.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And you’d be right.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Background:\u00a0 I’ve never smoked so much as a joint in my life; compared to me, Chad the Elder is a Dave Matthews roadie.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And yet I don’t care if people do light up around me.\u00a0 Pot has its harmful effects – it’s half the reason people still listen to the Doors – but less, all in all, than booze, which I cheerfully enjoy.\u00a0 Drunk people start brawls and smack people around; baked people lie around and look for cheetos.\u00a0 I’d have little problem legalizing, or at least decriminalizing, pot – although I’d still not partake because, jeezawfriday, it’s smoke<\/em>, man.\u00a0 How do <\/em>you inhale that crap?<\/p>\n Oh, yeah.\u00a0 I’m a conservative Christian Republican.\u00a0<\/p>\n Andy Birkey at the MRTA Monitor<\/a> writes a piece to lend propaganda suppor<\/a>t to a DFL “medical pot” bill in the Legislature (I add emphasis):<\/p>\n Iron Range resident K.K. Forss has found medical marijuana to be a substantial relief for pain he suffers as the result of a disc that burst in his neck. The self-described registered Republican and born-again Christian<\/strong> uses marijuana for pain he says is constant and debilitating.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n