Headline on Drudge...

"MAG: OBAMA COULD DECRIMINALIZE POT"

Really, dude? Is that what you think the first black President ought to be remembered for? Seriously. Look... on the brink of 2009, it ain't the white man holding down African-Americans... it's drugs holding down African-Americans. And that's a fact. Every single achievement gap that exists between white and black Americans can be traced back to narcotics... do you REALLY want Americans to look back and say the first African-American President spent his time trying to find ways to make it easier for people to do drugs?

There's another consideration as well. You've got a whole generation of young black Americans who have found a hero, somone to look up to, in our new President... an awful lot of our young people are going to look to Obama as an example of how they should live their lives. Is sending the message that smoking pot is somehow OK by Obama really the right thing to do for all those impressionable young people?

This an important moment Mr. President... maybe we should try to think a little bigger, huh?

UPDATE: And yes, I'm one of those old-fashioned dorks who thinks it's a bad idea for government to tacitly encourage drug use by proclaiming that Marijuana should not be illegal. Call me a prude if you must, but I know too many pot-smokers to ever be convinced that this is a good idea.