Steve Yegge: Have you ever legalized marijuana?

Re:Steve Yegge: Have you ever legalized marijuana? by tokenadult on Thursday April 09, 2009 @09:57AM (#554359)

"Because laws are pretty much like programs. You have to specify their behavior at almost (not quite, but almost) the same level of detail, using a language that's almost as crappy as our programming languages today -- English."

A very important point. This is why writing a new law to regulate behavior on some controversial issue doesn't do the whole job of resolving the issue.

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Re:Steve Yegge: Have you ever legalized marijuana? by dschobel on Thursday April 09, 2009 @11:59AM (#554572)

Well you could start by undoing the existing laws. Say, just repeal the federal laws and defer to the states. See how that goes for a while.

Rather than creating some grand new plan, how about just undoing the broken old thing for a start.

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Re:Steve Yegge: Have you ever legalized marijuana? by koningrobot on Friday April 10, 2009 @03:40AM (#555832)

I agree with this wholeheartedly. The credit bucket thing is something that needs to be done. The legalization thing is something that needs to be undone. Shit may not be easy, but tearing shit down is a lot easier than building shit up.

Then, after tearing shit down, you can build up the corners of life where it makes sense to regulate marijuana, such as on the job, in traffic, et cetera.

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