Want to have your mind blown? Bob Barr, former politician and now sometimes media pundit, and always an anti-drug warrior who did a live debate with Neal Boortz about the drug wars a few years ago, has joined a marijuana advocacy group. Seems like a flip-flop, right? It is, sort of, but he said (very paraphrased from memory) that it was not that his anti-drug stance has softened, more that he realized that there are better ways of going about it, that a lot of anti-drug programs just waste money, and arresting people for smoking pot under doctor's advice was too much government intrusion in our private lives. So he sees being a lobbyist for this group as an anti-big government deal, which fits right in with his generally conservative/free market stance.

His son is friends with a friend of mine who is having a birthday celebration this weekend, so I may get the chance to ask Mr. Barr's son about this new adventure.