Just Think How Much Weed You Could Buy With Eight Million

Born-again virtuecrat Bill Bennett wants (and has wanted for a long time) to send a lot more people to prison:

On Meet the Press, [Bill Bennett] advocated mandatory sentences for "recreational, yuppie" marijuana users, blaming them for "the murder and mayhem in Washington, the fact that we have babies now being born addicted to cocaine. � These people are accessories to all those things, and they need to start paying a price." He told the Wall Street Journal that the "casual user � is driving the whole enterprise." He told USA Today, "For your middle class or your yuppie user, let's do what they do in Phoenix: Weekend in jail, counseling program, and you pay the cost of it." He criticized celebrities who admitted to past drug use, warning that such disclosures gave kids the idea that "you can do drugs and still be rich and successful."

Let's see. Who should we lock up first?