That is a great quote. It should be engraved on the front of the White House.

Frank has also been at the forefront of criticizing the government's War on Online Gambling, good for him, but his overall record (and the record of just about everyone in Congress) shows that they indeed consider most parts of human activity to be the government's business.

Amen, Mr. Frank. Tonight, I will spark one up in your honor.

The deciding factor will eventually become one of how much money is SPENT trying to prevent people from growing, harvesting, distributing, purchasing, and consuming marijuana versus how much much money can be EARNED from the licensed cultivation, distribution, and purchase of it.

Now I'm just waiting for him to say "The vast amount of human activity ought to be none of the government’s business" in relation to sub-minimum-wage employment, and for the Stranger to bless that position, too. If it's not okay to nanny people's drug consumption, why is it okay to nanny their wage negotiations?

Might this not have a negative effect on the number of mean people with big guns that hand around the international borders?

And, of course the government should stay out of our business -- unless that business concerns plastic grocery bags.

Wage increases (and minimums) have positive effects on society, and increase tax-revenue. (obviously you can't increase it too much, but it needs to happen). The need to protect low-wage workers from expolitation is important and beneficial.

Using scarce police resources to police minor activity is not benefial to anyone. It also adds even more costs the govenment in jail, trials, etc. That is the difference.

I don't really want to see Camel "Greens" marketed by corporations. But what a great legal boost to the economy if you could grow and sell pot yourself.

No middle men allowed. Not available in stores.

One of many reasons he had a following for his Primary campaign.