The War Against Marijuana Was Just Another of Many Moralistic Campaigns

Biden's excellent pardon of the many people imprisoned for possession is another step in coming to grips with a pointless national obsession called the War on Drugs. He ended the war in Iraq, another somewhat politically risky move he made to help our country extract itself from a mistake. No one can predict an upcoming election for certain so Biden's work to straighten things out is a noble mission.

It's been known for years the War on Drugs is lost, never had a chance. One would think our country would have learned something from the "War on Alcohol," prohibition. Selling and drinking of alcohol just went right on. The only result was lots of money spent and many people died either engaging in illegal commerce or trying to enforce and unenforceable law. When other drugs were made illegal, they followed the same pattern of failure.

While some of the justification for these prohibited substances is about the harm they can do, much of it is Christian morality. Once an activity is determined to be a sin by influential people in the faith the political sector responds with self-righteous vengeance. 

We all know the self-righteous vengeance waged, and still being waged, on gay marriage and gay clergy. While its shelf life probably is close to the expiration date there is still some of it around. In full bloom just now is trans. "Just look in the Bible. No trans. Just men and women." This, too, will have a limited shelf life and the Christian hand wringers will move onto something else. 

Anti-abortion has all the ear marks of the same self-righteous campaign. Ever since it since it started decades ago there was an unsolvable problem. It was that it will never be possible to prosecute women, even though they are the ones ultimately making the abortion decision. There have been endless maneuvers to side-step this dilemma, the woman does not understand, the woman is the victim, etc, etc. None of these can possibly work because they are so obviously incorrect. The fact is the woman and the fetus are in competition, one has to win and the other lose. 

If I could wave a golden wand and get my way, I would say, "For one decade, U.S. society will have a break from self-righteous moral political buffoonery."