Leave it to Reason to take on Palin's pot smoking hypocrisy:
The upshot is that smoking marijuana in the privacy of one's home is just as legal in Alaska today as it was when Palin did it. Evidently she regrets this situation.
As mayor of Wasilla in 2000, Palin championed a city council resolution opposing a ballot initiative that would have legalized marijuana for adults. Last March her administration asked the Alaska Supreme Court to reverse its 1975 decision shielding private marijuana use, arguing that the drug is more dangerous than it used to be.In other words, Palin got to smoke pot without worrying about legal consequences and now wants to deny that assurance to fellow Alaskans doing exactly the same thing. "Palin doesn't support legalizing marijuana," the Anchorage Daily News reported in 2006, because she worries about "the message it would send to her four kids."
It's Palin's job to teach her children that certain pleasures are reserved for grownups. The government should not continue to arrest adults who are harming no one simply because her children are easily confused.
Maybe when I have kids of my own I'll understand why so many people are terrified that their kids might follow in their footsteps, but I hope not. I've made the choices that I made, good and bad, and they've led me to this place and this moment. And I like it here. To regret my mistakes is to suggest that I wish things had turned out differently. And since I don't wish that...
Anyway, consider this yet another example of how conservatism has turned itself upside down. Palin's afraid of "the message" something might send to her kids, so she wants the government to ban it. Even if its something she once gladly and happily did herself. Ridiculous.
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