11/1 Slate Magazine

Please add updates@feedmyinbox.com to your address book to make sure you receive these messages in the future. Slate Magazine Why gay marriage, getting high, and going to Cuba will soon be legal. October 31, 2009 at 11:06 am "I think this would be a good time for a beer," Franklin D. Roosevelt said upon signing a bill that made 3.2-percent lager legal again, some months ahead of the full repeal of Prohibition. I hope Barack Obama will come up with some comparably witty remarks as he presides over the dismantling of our contemporary forms of prohibition—laws that prevent gay marriage, restrict cannabis as a Schedule I Controlled Substance, and ban travel to Cuba. "You may now kiss the groom," perhaps, or—a version of the comment he once made about smoking pot—"I inhaled—that was the point." [more ...] Sponsored Topics: Barack Obama - Franklin D. Roosevelt - Cuba - United States - Politics Advertisement: October 31, 2009 at 11:06 am   This email was sent to sati2112@gmail.com.  Create Your Account Don't want to receive this feed any longer? Unsubscribe here.