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This Ad Has EverythingWell, hello, Lance Rogers! Sorry I didn’t notice your month-old ad until now, but I must say: It is awesome. Yep, those heroin users, always doing lots of heroin and then escaping into nothingness and not doing anything for hours and getting DUIs in their morphine dreams. Rogers’ campaign also registered DaylinLeach.com, which features more about this totally awesome Daylin Leach amendment. A quick recap as I understand it: If one gets pulled over and are drug tested, any amount of an illegal drug in your system can be used as evidence of a DUI. Most everything but marijuana exits the body amazingly quickly, so the law usually catches recreational pot smokers who may or may not be stoned. It has nothing to do with impairment or making the roads safer. And nobody cares about that, especially not politicians. Well Daylin Leach actually cared about that. And tried to fix it! He somehow actually thought this amendment would be an easy sell to the State Senate, too, which might mean he actually cares about personal freedoms and maybe even how much less safe the War on Drugs makes us and… oh, man, I got it! Official Philadelphia Will Do Endorsement: Daylin Leach for State House. Do you really want a domain squatter in the state legislature? Update: Also, Daylin Leach’s actual campaign site has this awesome list at the end of his “accomplishments” page:
I am now more aware of mitochondrial disease than ever! That’s mainly because of Tampa Bay Rays’ outfielder Rocco Baldelli, I think, but I guess we can give ol’ Daylin a little extra credit, too. Points off, though, for getting both words in “familial dysautonomia” incorrect. |
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2008 Election, 2008 State Legislature Elections, Campaign Ads, Daylin Leach, Familial Dysautonomia, Lance Rogers, Mitochondrial Disease
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Re: The drug stuff. Reading this, I’m less enthused, but, I guess I’ll take whatever drug law reform I can get. (That kind of thinking is going to get me to vote for Obama. Dammit!)
And a message on Leach’s website says “the bill was supported by MADD” and talks as if it’s toughening penalties. Eh, whatever, from the transcript in the House (provided on DaylinLeach.com) he’s trying to do science-backed drug laws, and that’s something.
I don’t know if I can handle any change - I’m so used to the hysteria-backed drug laws by now.
Hey, you’re ahead of the game: Most people think our drug laws are based on science and compassion and chemical dangers of drugs. I have a column half-done on this that I’ll probably never finish. But, hey, I wrote this comment at least.