Today our Justin Elliott got hold of an email sent to members of the Columbus Tea Party, a local Tea Party organization in Ohio, telling them how and how not to act at the Tax Day event later this week. And one of the admonitions is “No alcohol (or other mood-enhancer) or pre-drinking.”
Now, that’s probably pretty good advice. But the reference to ‘mood enhancers’ got me thinking about the political taxonomy of mind altering substances.
For instance, also today we learned that in the compound of the Christian ‘Hutaree’ militia, police found not just guns and steroids but crack cocaine. Now, I’d have figured alcohol. Maybe Oxycontin, if they go in for that kind of thing. But any kind of cocaine, crack or otherwise, just wasn’t what I was figuring. (Just as a side note, perhaps we can all agree that the 2nd amendment shouldn’t apply to coke addicts. Who’s with me on this?) Not that coke ain’t a thing on the right, just not that right. That’s more your Wall Street/libertarian supply side type, like an ’80s/90s era Larry Kudlow.
We’d probably all figure that your garden variety WTO protestors tend toward weed. But, like, are shrooms and acid something that causes things to get out of hand at Tea Party events? Not really the feel I sense from those crowds. Anyway, who can help me chart out a more nuanced political taxonomy of drug use?
