American Legion Magazine Letter to the Editor

The most recent issue of American Legion Magazine had several letters to the editor regarding medical marijuana, the health benefits, whether it should be decriminalized, etc.  (Yes I'm a member, having been in the Navy from 1969 to 1973).  Some of the letters were surprisingly open-minded and libertarian/live-and-let-live.

And then there was the following bilge-fest, which I shall proceed to rant about here:

“If the plant had great value, why haven't the medical profession and drug companies taken from it what works and produced a pill obtainable only by prescription?  All who sell, use or grow the stuff (except as noted above) should be most severely punished.  Its apparently widespread use is purely to render the nation a bunch of stupid, worthless druggies some nation will find easy to defeat.”

James G. Hudkins, Cuyahoga Falls, OH

W? T? F???

Where to begin...

Is this guy just dumber than a bag of hammers?  A paid shill for the pharmaceutical industry and/or the drug-testing industry and/or the Prison Industrial Complex?  Or maybe his letter was tongue-in-cheek; and he was just doing a hilarious imitation of a mean-and-stupid power-crazed lifer (which the Navy was heavily infested/infected with in the early '70s).

Burning Issue for the American Legion

Right now we’re quagmired in two countries. Make that three if you count Pakistan. North Korea has the world on edge. We have tens of thousands of disabled and neglected soldiers and veterans.

With so much going on, guess what issue the American Legion is most worked up about. Right you are — a flag burning amendment.

[sigh]

How’s that for priorities?

Here’s a link to the American Legion Magazine. Most of their articles aren’t available online, including this one.

Here’s a link to part of the interview between the American Legion Magazine and Richard D. Parker, the Harvard Law professor who’s obsessed with amending the Constitution to “protect” the flag.

Nero fiddled while Rome burned.

cross-posted at Bring It On!