A Mockery Of Conservative Principles
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 11:22 pm
Richard Cowan has been an off and on online friend for decades. (since FIDOnet days) I never knew he was a founder of YAF.In 1972, William F. Buckley Jr., America’s most prominent right-wing intellectual, came out in favor of marijuana legalization. Buckley’s protégé, Richard Cowan, co-founder of the student group Young Americans for Freedom, would later serve as NORML’s executive director. Writing in the National Review, Cowan argued that penalizing marijuana consumption made a mockery of conservative principles: “The hysterical myths about marijuana…have led conservatives to condone massive programs of social engineering, interference in the affairs of individuals, [and] monstrous bureaucratic waste.”
http://www.beta.alternet.org/drugs/let- ... page=0%2C1
