The silly war

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Government officials, police,
�media rant against legalizing
�pot. Opiates were handed out
�by doctors like Halloween candy.
�Now we live with those deaths.

Police say pot’ll cause accidents.
�Yet alcohol is legal most places.
�Hasn’t anyone noticed that making
�guns accessible to angry crazies
�selling assault rifles to teenagers

and fanatics kills folks every day—
�just shopping, going to the movies,
�concerts, church, synagogue can
�earn you bullets from strangers.
�Those same legislators love

guns of any size and shape.
�They’re as ignorant about pot
�as about critical race theory.
�Do they even get the difference
�between THC and CBD?

I wonder, do they have any idea
�what their children are vaping?

Marge Piercy is the author of twenty books of poetry, most recently On the Way Out, Turn Off the Light, plus seventeen novels, a memoir, a short story collection, and five nonfiction books.