San Francisco is a Madhouse

On a non-Stan­ford relat­ed note, this area is a mad­house. San Fran­cis­co is plan­ning to vote on whether to grow pot (mar­i­jua­na) on pub­lic lands. This is because Propo­si­tion 215 legal­iz­ing med­i­c­i­nal mar­i­jua­na has­n’t flown at all with the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment. I sup­pose the city fig­ures that if they grow the pot on pub­lic lands the DEA is less like­ly to come in and arrest gov­ern­ment employ­ees.

Advo­cates say that this leg­is­la­tion has the addi­tion­al ben­e­fit of pro­vid­ing job train­ing for the unem­ployed. Train­ing unem­ployed peo­ple to grow and dis­trib­ute drugs just does­n’t seem like a help­ful social strat­e­gy to me…

This, of course, is the same city that just now made it ille­gal to poop in pub­lic, and the deci­sion was hot­ly con­test­ed. No joke.

In my mind, not poop­ing in pub­lic is just basic cour­tesy (not to men­tion good pub­lic health pol­i­cy).