What Do Progressives Have against Vaporous Substances?

It’s weird how science and harm reduction are important lodestars for progressives, except when they aren’t.

In the classic 1979 comedy The Jerk, Steve Martin plays a very dumb guy who often misses the point. In one scene, while he’s working as a gas-station attendant, an assassin tries to kill him with a high-powered rifle. When the bullets start whizzing past his head and popping holes in some motor-oil cans, he immediately assumes the cans must be defective because they’re spontaneously springing leaks. When the sniper is pointed out to...