Friedman says he'd legalize pot in Texas - Yahoo! News: "AUSTIN, Texas - Kinky Friedman says he favors legalizing marijuana to keep nonviolent users out of prison. If Texas elects him governor, he says, he'll try to get locked-up pot users released to make room for more violent criminals.
'I think that's long overdue,' Friedman told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday. 'I think everybody knows what (U.S. Sen.) John McCain said is right: We've pretty well lost the war on drugs doing it the way we're doing it. Drugs are more available and cheaper than ever before. What we're doing is not working. . .'"
Amen, bro! Go, Kinky!
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That is disturbing. I'll follow your links, though. I had hopes for a decent in Texas.
'"Racism was here before I came around," he said. "I am just trying to bring up these issues within the (expletive) society."
Later, he said: "As it happens, the crackheads and thugs who remain in Houston after Katrina happen to be black; that's fact."
Friedman, who is Jewish, said he considers politicians who pander to minorities as racist.
"I don't eat tamales in the barrio; I don't eat fried chicken in the ghetto; I don't eat bagels with the Jews for breakfast," he said. "That to me is true racism." '
The entire quote puts a different slant on the statement, so I'll not throw Kinky under the bus--yet.
Hmmm; I've been having trouble with my home computer so I don't when I'll get a chance to check all this out. Stay tuned.
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