Jeff Brandenberger thinks that economic growth is a generally good thing.  The self-described DFLer and ELCA Lutheran works a job in the private sector and would like the school system to suck less.

“Huh?”, you might say, before rejoining “Big friggin’ deal!”. 

And you’d be right. 

Background:  I’ve never smoked so much as a joint in my life; compared to me, Chad the Elder is a Dave Matthews roadie. 

And yet I don’t care if people do light up around me.  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.  Drunk people start brawls and smack people around; baked people lie around and look for cheetos.  I’d have little problem legalizing, or at least decriminalizing, pot – although I’d still not partake because, jeezawfriday, it’s smoke, man.  How do you inhale that crap?

Oh, yeah.  I’m a conservative Christian Republican. 

Andy Birkey at the MRTA Monitor writes a piece to lend propaganda support to a DFL “medical pot” bill in the Legislature (I add emphasis):

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 uses marijuana for pain he says is constant and debilitating.

Now, Andy Birkey being an online “citizen journalist” and all, he was smart enough to find a cheeba monkey who has no google record of being a “Republicans for Kucinich”-type Republican, or even a Sturdevant-approved one.  So maybe there’s something to that…

…except who cares?  What is that factoid supposed to lend this story?

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