I never thought of selling my kids for weed...

But had I known there kids-for-pot market was as strong as Sen. Tom Harkin thinks it is, I have to admit, there are days when I might have given it a second thought:

The victims of the drug war are many - the small child whose parents are so addicted to illegal drugs that they sell everything including perhaps their own children to obtain a fix; the police officer's family which must now learn to cope with the loss of their loved one as a result of a violent drug bust gone awry. These are the people I think of when I say that drugs pose a significant threat to the security of this nation.

There are some issues that just turn a politician' s brain to shit, and marijuana legalization is one of those. Pot is nowhere near the problem that cigarettes and booze are, still, mention legalizing the Goddess' Own Herb, and people turn into Teh Stoopit.