How Gay Marriage Is Like Legalizing Pot
Marijuana will be legal much sooner than people think.
I am working at updating my references to popular culture in an effort to minimize the number of blank stares I engender from audiences that include many people much younger than myself. This effort seems especially appropriate for the subject of this column: the similarity of marijuana and same-sex marriage as issues of public policy. Temporarily putting aside my admiration for the analytic approach implicit in Henny Youngman’s two liner—“‘How’s your wife?’ ‘Compared to what?’”—I’ll instead invoke Sheldon Cooper from the Big Bang Theory, one of the nation’s most popular sitcoms.
When other characters in the show challenge his attempts to win arguments with non-obvious comparisons by asking how the two things he is analogizing are so similar, Sheldon responds “How are they not?”
Exactly. As a political issue, the fight to remove criminal sanctions for the recreational use of marijuana closely resembles...
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