What if suddenly the federal government decided vodka should be a controlled substance? What if a few politicians met in some back room and made a sweetheart deal with Jim Beam to ban vodka for some arbitrary reason, coming out publicly and demonizing anyone who dares to enjoy a screwdriver at happy hour? What if they went public against vodka, citing hundreds of studies which prove conclusively that using vodka will ruin your health, make you violent and promiscuous, destroy your life, and even kill you? What if those same politicians convinced the right people to join their cause and somehow forced a vote to prohibit vodka altogether, debating and voting on it in less than five minutes on the legislative floor, thereby making it a crime to ever produce, sell, distribute, possess, or use vodka ever again? What if they urged law enforcement to harass you, pat you down, arrest you, cause your unemployment, prosecute you, imprison you, forever destroying your ability to get financial aid or even a decent job again, simply because you chose to do a Jello shot? What if they took away your children because they caught you with a stockpile of bootleg vodka? What if they did that?

Yet, they left whiskey legal...

As comical as this scenario seems, this is precisely what happened in 1937 with cannabis. Alcohol prohibition had ended. People could freely engage in the vice of inebriation again, without fear of their lives being ruined. So, the powers that be turned to cannabis, a non-lethal substance which was being used in some form by virtually every household in the country - as medicine, food, rope, fuel, textiles, even recreationally by our nation's presidents!

What sense does it make to allow alcohol, prescription drugs, and tobacco to remain legal - even knowing the lethality and inherent risks of these substances - while prohibiting cannabis?

Would you permit the federal government to make it a crime to drink vodka but tell you it's okay to drink whiskey? Wouldn't you consider that to be a violation of your right to make a choice? Think about it.

If this seems an arbitrary notion, please urge your elected officials to put pressure on the federal government to repeal the illogical and unconstitutional laws against cannabis. Then, the states can decide for themselves through popular vote and state law whether or not to RE-legitimize the cannabis industry.

Still in doubt? Re-read the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution. You can Google it... Ironic that our President used to be a professor of Constitutional Law, huh?