President Biden has a chance to put his name next to FDR’s in the history books by ending marijuana prohibition. BigMeanInternet writes
where staffers can get prescription drugs, including the stimulant Provigil, without any questions. There’s a reason FDR singled out “hypocrisy” as a vice of prohibition — one that constituted its own type of moral intemperance: Better a nation of honest stoners than one of pill-popping hypocrites.
When it comes to staffing a government, a thin yet total restriction on weed use is a big obstacle to recruiting highly skilled tech workers, who can get paid way more to go anywhere else and who, as a group, have a disproportionate interest in both weed and contractual honesty. Software developer Jacob Kaplan-Moss was compulsively truthful enough to mention his college marijuana use in his background check for his gig at 18F, an in-house government technology and design consultancy.
I’m not an expert in personnel management, but it does not strike me as a good idea to hire people for important government jobs by inducing them to lie. One problem with the Reagan policy in the age of legal weed is that people who don’t feel comfortable lying all the time about something insignificant won’t work for you, while those who do will.
When Congress received Roosevelt’s call to legalize beer, which commenced the end of Prohibition, the clerk reading it aloud “was constantly interrupted by bursts of cheers and applause from both the membership and the galleries,” a reporter. “Impatient members in the back rows of the House started a chant of ‘vote, vote, we want beer.’” Biden has a chance to put his name next to Roosevelt’s in the history books, and he already has the rhetoric available to explain the decision.
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