Let them smoke weed

With the intent of undermining the market for illegal drugs, Uruguay's government presented a bill to lawmakers that would legalise marijuana under a government monopoly. The government of President Jose Mujica has argued that the war on drugs has failed, and that separating the market for marijuana from the market for harder drugs will have social and health benefits. As well as the stated benefits, this could bring in some tax money for the Uruguayan government. In fact, everyone else should consider making pot legal for the tax money like they're doing with tobacco. Such a move will also eliminate a lot of the lawlessness associated with the drug, much of this being due to the fact that the drug is illegal to begin with. So on the whole, I think Uruguay are doing the right thing. And speaking of the right thing, a popular Indian yoga guru has fasted for a fourth day today and is threatening to expand his protest nationwide if the government doesn't act decisively to bring back billions of dollars of ill-gotten money that some Indians have allegedly stashed abroad. "If the prime minister fails to respond to my demand by Sunday evening, I will intensify the protest across the country in the form of a people's revolt," Baba Ramdev told thousands of cheering supporters at a sprawling fairground in New Delhi.