Politics: Former Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders: Legalize pot and stuff
- What I think is horrible about all of this, is that we criminalize young people. And we use so many of our excellent resources … for things that aren’t really causing any problems. It’s not a toxic substance.
- Former Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders • Arguing the case for pot legalization. But before you pot-heads get too excited about having a mainstream, respected ally, we just want to point out how she lost her job. Elders, who served (controversially) under President Bill Clinton, is known for saying things like this. She once argued in favor of teaching masturbation in schools – an argument that caused her firing just fifteen months in. We wonder what our boy Dr. Koop thinks about all this. source