They apply to consumable substances as well. The Centers for Disease Control and Bush’s Surgeon General, Whatshisname (no, not the guy with the weird beard nor the crazy woman peddling onanism), have both taken the position, endorsed now by simpleton statists in North Carolina, that there is no safe level of exposure to cigarette smoke.

Now Obama’s “Drug Czar,” who is not the Surgeon General but a faceless bureaucrat with authority, has declared that “Marijuana is dangerous and has no medicinal benefit.” Not even that.