Damn Prohibitionism!

Commenter Jillian has it absolutely right, of course. "If there are no victims and no potential victims then where is the crime?" Like all tyrannical Prohibitionists (Puritan or Taliban), that Maine Attorney General fails to differentiate between the proper province of criminal law -- transgression of one person upon another -- and the enforcement of religious taboos regarding personal choices (what one can smoke, read, think, or beat off to) that have nothing to do with interpersonal transgression, unless you contruct convoluted and self-justifying socialist arguments like "we have the right to control whether you can drink booze because the Public pays for your liver transplant" or "Because pot is illegal, those who buy pot support organized crime."

Damn Puritanism and all the other forms of tyrannical Socialism, and especially damn Prohibitionism!