Rep. Steven Holt “Deeply Disturbed” About Curtailing Liberties…Except For Hemp Smoking

I find it quite ironic that today’s supposed moral high ground stance by Representative Steven Holt claims to be pro-liberty and worried about the Constitution:

I am deeply disturbed when talking heads and so called experts suggest that restrictions on our liberty and economy should go on for as long as 18 months. That is pure insanity. As free people, we can accept the drastic measures taken to fight this virus for a short time only, and even then, with a highly skeptical eye. To accept any of this as a “new normal,” is to give up our liberty, economic well-being and way of life for “security” that is nothing more than an allusion. The words of Thomas Jefferson should be well remembered in the weeks to come: “I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.”

— Rep. Steve Holt, “Dangerous freedom or peaceful slavery” April 14 2020 published by The Iowa Standard

Republicans who tell me personal consumption or cultivation of my own marijuana for religious and medical reasons do not hold much water, when pretending to cite the Constitution, as they’ve already sold out their principles. I like Steve Holt’s words, but his actions on targeting and disallowing hemp smoking/CBD products are genuinely absurd.