More seniors are toking up. It can sure help with back pain and other ailments of getting older. Joe Klein thinks that we "are in the process of a back-door legalization, sweeping from the libertarian west to the east." I watched Bill Maher's new stand-up the other night. I love the idea that marijuana use is one dividing line between free societies and Islamist ones:

"I want to live in a country where being stoned is a good thing, not a bad thing."

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