'BONG HITS' RULING STIFLING

The recent Supreme Court decision over a student's banner that said
"Bong Hits 4 Jesus" contains an important dissenting view.

So, like the reformers of that era, those of us today who would try
to reform drug policy are held in check, due to the so-called moral
majority. Justice John Paul Stevens put it thusly: Just as
Prohibition in the 1920s and early 1930s was secretly questioned by
thousands of otherwise law-abiding patrons of bootleggers and
speakeasies, today the actions of literally millions of otherwise
law-abiding users of marijuana, and of the majority of voters in each
of the several states that tolerate medicinal uses of the product,
lead me to wonder whether the fear of disapproval by those in the
majority is silencing opponents of the war on drugs.

This is exactly what is happening today.

William Morrison, The Colony