From the HUFF POST:
A forthcoming unauthorized biography about former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is generating news around the country. The two items getting the most ink so far are the claims that Palin had a fling with NBA star Glen Rice while she was a sports reporter in Alaska, and that Sarah Palin used cocaine while snowmobiling with friends. …
I have mixed feelings when I hear about Palin and other politicians’ drug use. The revelations are beneficial by helping shatter the myth that if you try drugs you are going to be an unproductive person who ruins your life.
But the hypocrisy is infuriating. Our prisons are exploding with more than 500,000 people behind bars for nonviolent drug offenses — and these politicians are perpetuating the policies that created this catastrophe. It is time for voters to punish elected officials – not for past drug use, but for supporting draconian laws that lock up so many of our brothers and sisters for doing what so many of our elected officials do themselves.
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