Re: Libertarian States (was Re: Overpopulation)

From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Mon Feb 25 2002 - 12:22:04 MST


> (James Rogers <jamesr@best.com>):
>
> 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.

Nevada still has a few regulatory headaches: as has been pointed out
by many humorists, you can ride your motorcycle from the casino to
the whorehouse with a gun on your hip and a bottle of whiskey in your
saddlebags, but you'd better be wearing a helmet, and have up-to-date
registration and proof of insurance, and obey the speed limits...

--Lee (who can now return to Nevada without using an alias because
the proof-of-insurance thing has a statute of limitations :-)

-- 
Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/>
"All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past,
are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified
for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC


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