Sometimes I simply have to laugh while watching the Dallas City Council appear so earnest and passionate on their way to being a body of buffoons. Take this entire debate over K2. Only one council member, Angela Hunt, questioned the need for this totally useless ordinance that banned the sale of the substance in Dallas. Hunt wisely was trying to restrict its sale to those under 21 saying alcohol still causes far more deaths (like a gazzilion to none) than K2.
But what about the questions that were never asked that should have been?
- What has the Food and Drug Administration said about K2, if anything?
- How long does anyone expect it will take for the manufacturers of K2, who are obviously much smarter than our city leaders, to come up with an alternative?
- How much will it cost the city to defend the lawsuits that will be filed to challenge this ordinance?
- How many of our citizens are using marijuana regularly compared to K2? I'm willing the bet the farm marijuana use is far more prevalent, meaning the laws we already have on the books regarding its use and sale are not working.
- And, most important, has Desoto banned the sale of K2? Has Lancaster? Has Mesquite? How about Garland, Richardson, Plano, University Park, Arlington, Grand Prairie? If D-Wayne Demagogue and Da Mayor think this will prevent kids from obtaining K2, they are either naive or ignorant.
So the Dallas City Council, in its collective wisdom, moves today to protect the interests of the people of Dallas and only proves once again just how completely out of touch with those people they really are. Shakespeare's
Macbeth perfectly described grandstanding like this by our city council had the perect description of the Dallas City Council: "That struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing."
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