BTW letting them toke up is a good move politically, because it’ll give them lots of motivation to stand in front of television cameras — stoned out of their minds — and talk about how stopthedrugwar.org isn’t very pleased with Obama’s VP choice. They were hoping for someone more “enlightened” — someone more like Obama himself, whatever that means.

Thus the silver-lining may be that as Vice President, Biden would no longer be serving on the judiciary committee, where he’s exerted his influence in the form of the various atrocities outlined above. As VP he’d technically be losing his authority over drug policy issues, except to whatever extent Obama may seek his advice when selecting the drug czar and so forth. It’s certainly possible that Obama’s more enlightened views would prevail within his administration, or even that Biden’s “tough on crime” credentials could provide cover for reform, but Biden would be a strange ingredient in the behind-the-scenes reform agenda that’s so often attributed to Obama by liberal reformers. It was bad enough when Obama softened his reform positions to avoid attacks from the right. Will he now begin watching his step around his own running mate?

So the stoners don’t like Biden but the silver lining in theri view is that by becoming Vice President, he would lose his authority over drug policies that they don’t like, because his boss would be more “enlightened.”

This is a rich vein of material and the RNC should be exploiting it to the hilt.