Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

February 1, 2012

Before March 2011, the manufacture, sale, and possession of a form of incense called ?Spice? was legal in the State of Idaho. Then the legislature, always eager to expand the power of the government and constrict personal freedom, enacted a measure designating it a drug.

Just a few weeks later, the North Idaho Violent Crimes Task Force conducted a Spice raid on smoke shops in Coeur d?Alene. In the following October, police in Boise arrested four people for possession of Spice. In late January, Idaho Falls Police arrested 11 people who ran a licensed business called Incense Inc.

Dutifully performing their role as government stenographers, the Idaho Falls NBC affiliate gloated that while the business could shut its doors to the public, ?they couldn?t shut out the law,? and insisted that the city is ?a little safer? because of the arrests.

Like many other common products? including cleaners, magic markers, and various aerosol sprays ? Spice can be used as a mood-altering substance.  Immediately after the legislature banned Spice, an alarm was sounded that use of bath salts as a drug substitute had spiked ? thereby offering the prohibitionists another target.

Every prohibitionist measure expands the realm of state-licensed violence. Prohibitionists are determined, quite literally, to protect us to death.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.