Medical Pot Policy Mellows Out [News Bits]

"We cannot hope to eradicate the drug trade if we do not first address the cash cow for most drug trafficking organizations — marijuana," said Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee.

Yes, Lamar, you're right. We need to eliminate the drug trade's cash cow, by legalizing marijuana, not wasting billions of law-enforcement and prosecution dollars chasing a bunch of 60-something hippies in the mountains of Northern California.

LBJ also tried incentives with North Vietnam. He offered to build a public utility the size of the Tennessee Valley Authority there if Ho Chih Minh surrendered.