legislating morality

self-medicating blunts anxiety
for some who doubt they'll ever carve a place
contributing to a society
that offers less a life than a rat-race
some lean on booze, and we tried banning that
which pumped a lot of money into crime
you'd almost have to think the world were flat
to criminalize smoking pot this time
dispassionately acting on the facts
we wouldn't keep repeating these mistakes
on such a market, we should levee tax
if half our legislators were awake
from Prohibition, we can learn a lot
about the fight for legalizing pot