Maybe I just don't get it, but as a longtime reader of the Nexus' drug articles, I still find myself at a loss as to what the paper or frequent drug columnist Kevin McCarty is actually advocating. A recent column ("The Pointlessness of Pot Persecution," Daily Nexus, May 16, 2011) essentially stated "the man is keeping us down by illegalizing weed," and then - and this one is a direct quote, mind you - insisted that "we only need a nanny state to take care of us because we have become disconnected from our natural niche within nature." The column goes on to assert that social programs, modern medicine and war are merely byproducts of our disconnect from the natural state of affairs.

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