Friday, 3 January 2014

Penn Jillette On Drug Legalisation

For a warm Friday evening watch, here is some weapons grade common sense from reet proper libertarian Penn Jillette.


There are quotes there which stand out as text book for anyone who claims to believe in liberty.
"I've never had a puff of marijuana in my life - never had a recreational drug - and [yet] I so want that legal so I'm not paying for enforcement of a law that just seems stupid" 
"When I was young and everyone around me was smoking dope, there [were] two things I wanted; one was to never be around someone smoking dope and, two, to have it completely legal." 
"I only care about freedoms of things I don't agree with, that's the only ones that test me ... if you have not got the freedom to put what you want in your body, you are not living in a free country"
Quite.

Do watch the whole thing as an illustration that we are, indeed, on the side of the angels here. Libertarians like and trust people; prohibitionists don't. It's that simple.