Loved by the Trustafarians

Could Barney Frank (D-Ignorantia) become a hero to the Rastafarians?

Frank has filed a bill that would eliminate federal penalties for personal possession of less than 100 grams of marijuana.

It would also make the penalty for using marijuana in public just $100.

“I think John Stuart Mill had it right in the 1850s,” said Congressman Frank, “when he argued that individuals should have the right to do what they want in private, so long as they don’t hurt anyone else. It’s a matter of personal liberty. Moreover, our courts are already stressed and our prisons are over-crowded. We don’t need to spend our scarce resources prosecuting people who are doing no harm to others.”

Frank filed a similar bill last year, but it failed.

I didn’t even know he could pronounce the words “Personal Liberty”.

It is most likely that he had a staffer look up the phrase and write it out for the reporter.