From: James Rogers (jamesr@best.com)
Date: Mon Feb 25 2002 - 11:23:09 MST
On 2/25/02 9:03 AM, Spike Jones wrote:
> As a bonus, Nevada is second only to Alaska in
> being libertarian.
While I see it said many times that Alaska is a libertarian State, I have my
doubts. In my experience, Alaska is a fairly socialist State (in the same
way New Mexico is), but is in a unique position where the citizens of the
State are not really paying the costs of socialism.
Nevada has finally gotten around to reforming the only really
non-libertarian stance they had, which was their strict drug laws. In
addition to passing a medical marijuana ballot prop, the state legislature
passed a measure that turns possession offenses for some drugs (e.g.
marijuana) into a $400 citation. The "speeding ticket" model is arguably a
much saner implementation, since most drug possession laws are nominally
Health And Public Safety laws much like speeding tickets and not true
crimes.
-James Rogers
jamesr@best.com
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