Drugs are powerful stuff, indeed: under their influence, even firebrand Ayn Rand libertarians and big-government, left-leaning Democrats can find common ground.
Thanks to marijuana, the unlikely pairing of Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky and newcomer Sen. Cory Booker, the ex-mayor of Newark, are working together to end the federal government's stamping-out of marijuana in states where the drug is legal.
You may recall that last month, the House of Representatives voted to axe from the Justice Department's budget money used to bust weed users in places like California and Colorado. In order for that historic vote to be anything more than symbolic, a similar vote will be required in the U.S. Senate.
That would require Paul -- whose father, libertarian legend Ron Paul, waged a long and fruitless struggle in Congress to liberalize drugs laws -- and Booker to somehow move immovable forces like San Francisco's own Sen. Dianne Feinstein. Can it be done?
.@SenRandPaul & I are sponsoring an amendment to broadly ban fed interference against state #medmarijuana laws: http://t.co/QRxeRgVhUP
— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) June 20, 2014
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