Maine: pot is more important than equal rights
November 4th, 2009 by 
Zach Ammerman, IDS Columnist
The citizens of Maine voted yesterday by 20 percentage points to effectively legalize marijuana. Unfortunately, they also apparently thought that smoking pot was more important than allowing gay people to be able to have the same marriage rights as the rest of the state because they repealed the states already-approved same-sax marriage law.
Thanks, Maine!
November 4th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
Legalized pot is less debatable than “same-sex marriage”. I wonder what would have happened if they had tried civil unions with the same rights as marriage…
November 5th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
Because separate but equal has been so effectively proven to be equal.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
I was under the impression the civil unions in Maine lacked the same benefits as marriage, which was what helped spur the legislature to legalize gay marriage in the first place.
I would think that this could be changed, at least at the state level, without too much trouble.
I think gay couples should be able to enter into the same legal institution of marriage as straight couples, but improving civil unions would be much better than nothing.
November 5th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
I wonder what would happen if we put black people in separate schools with the same curriculum as white schools…