Barney Frank for President!!

Although this will be a tokin' gesture with no chance of passing, Barney Frank has introduced some very sensible legislation.

The U.S. should stop arresting responsible marijuana users, Rep. Barney Frank said Wednesday, announcing a proposal to end federal penalties for Americans carrying fewer than 100 grams, almost a quarter-pound, of the substance.
Current laws targeting marijuana users place undue burdens on law enforcement resources, punish ill Americans whose doctors have prescribed the substance and unfairly affect African-Americans, said Frank, flanked by legislators and representatives from advocacy groups.
"The vast amount of human activity ought to be none of the government's business," Frank said during a Capitol Hill news conference. "I don't think it is the government's business to tell you how to spend your leisure time." [...]
There have been 20 million marijuana-related arrests since 1965, [Allen St. Pierre] said, and 11 million since 1990, and "every 38 seconds, a marijuana smoker is arrested." Rob Kampia, director of the Marijuana Policy Project, said marijuana arrests outnumber arrests for "all violent crimes combined," meaning that police are spending inordinate amounts of time chasing nonviolent criminals.

Nah gah hpn. But it's the thought that counts.