Your point was?
Aren't you only referring to medical use - but of course not as I doubt you refer to medical use as fun
I was making fun of Dornan and his campaign volunteer, Yvonne Wachter's statements concerning Rohrabacher's co-authorship of a medicinal marijuana bill.
Rohrabacher says it's to ease suffering and they say it's because he's a reefer advocate. To coin a phrase popular with a certain contingent of FReepers, a doper.
I quote:
"I do believe that marijuana is a threat and is harmful," Rohrabacher said. "But that doesn't mean that if someone is sick and it will help their appetite, we should arrest them. I'm not for changing federal laws, but if the states want it, they should be allowed to proceed."
Rohrabacher is also critical of some drug laws that result in users being imprisoned, saying intervention – and even mandatory drug testing for high school students – would be better. However, he said he is not advocating changing any drug laws. Dornan, 70, questions the motive behind Rohrabacher's medicinal-marijuana bill.
"This is all a bogus smokescreen for the legalization of recreational use of mind-altering chemical substances," Dornan said. "Anybody's who's ill is told, 'We can give a THC (marijuana's active ingredient) substance to you, a legal pill or patch.'"
Wachter goes on to say:
"He's an advocate for reefer," said Wachter, a Dornan campaign volunteer. "When you give states' rights on this, you give growers a free pass. We'll have fields of reefer."
So, to me, Mencken's quote perfectly describes Dornan and his supporters description as the stereotypical puritans, not Puritans. The accuracy of any such sterotyping notwithstanding.