Palin: She Inhaled, By Lisa Lerer – CBS News
(The Politico) Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is known as a staunch social conservative. She’s a life long NRA member, belongs to an anti-abortion-rights group called Feminists for Life and opposes civil unions.But the self-proclaimed “hockey mom” had some youthful indiscretions.
Palin has said she smoked marijuana but didn’t enjoy it and doesn’t smoke anymore.
“I can’t claim a Bill Clinton and say that I never inhaled,” she told the Anchorage Daily News in 2006.
At the time, marijuana was legal under Alaska’s liberal drug laws.
A 1975 Alaska Supreme Court decision allowed adults to possess small amounts of marijuana for personal use. In June 2006, a law signed by then-Republican Gov. Frank Murkowski re-criminalized the drug. The American Civil Liberties Union later sued the state, alleging that the law violates Alaskans’ state constitutional right to privacy.
Palin has said she doesn’t support legalizing the drug, fearing the message it would send to her five children.
And that message would be what, “Don’t smoke marijuana kids, you might grow up to be mayor, governor, and a vice-presidential candidate some day?” Considering the unplanned pregnancy of the unmarried teenage daughter of the Alaska governor who would outlaw all abortions, even in cases of rape, incest, or the mother’s health in danger, this Alaska governor who would mandate abstinence-only sexual education for your kids needs to work on her own messaging to her kids before she casts aspersions on the message of legalized marijuana.
Sarah Palin had the good fortune to be in Alaska, where personal marijuana use is a privacy right under the state constitution. She didn’t face arrest for her personal use in her youth. Had she been arrested, she’d have a criminal drug conviction on her record. That would have made it much more difficult for her to become mayor or governor – instead of VP nominee Palin, she’d be PTA Hockey Mom Palin still scratching out a living as a small-town Alaskan sportscaster.
Don’t think I’m giving the Democrats a pass on this, either. If Barack Obama had been arrested for his personal use of marijuana (and cocaine) in his youth, instead of the first African-American presidential nominee, he’d be Barry the Janitor.
The message is “Do as I say, Not as I do”.
I like standards, I think everyone should have
more than one!
What the hell is “the message” to children anyway?
Not to run for office?
It should be the same message that we send to them about booze, sex, etc.
Once you are an adult you can choose what substance(s) you wish to introduce into your body. All the consequences have been documented and are available to you in some form or another.
Instead the kids get lies and more lies. What do you expect?