In my latest National Post column I argue for marijuana legalization because free adults should make their own choices... and it is not always wrong to get high including on alcohol, nicotine or pot.

"In truth, it is a mark of faith to joke about one’s convictions. A man dances on a rock. He does not dance on a tight rope." G.K. Chesterton, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 3 #8, July/August 2000

"Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them." G.K. Chesterton in Orthodoxy

"Always put the spiritual things first." G.K. Chesterton in "Topsy-Turvy" in Tremendous Trifles, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 10 #3 (December 2006)

"This is no easy mission. But its difficulty is not our concern; we did not create the mission, and we cannot change it. The word 'mission' derives from the Latin root missus – which means 'sent.' We have been sent – to seek God, study the world, and serve humanity." Fr. John Jenkins re what the university should be in his inaugural address as president of Notre Dame University, quoted by Richard John Neuhaus in First Things December 2005

"Who are you that you should not believe in fairy tales?" G.K. Chesterton, quoted by John Peterson story in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 12 #4 (Jan.-Feb. 2009)

"As G.K. Chesterton said, what makes religions different is not what their garb and customs are like, but what they hold to be true." James V. Schall S.J. in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 20 #2 (Nov.-Dec. 2016)

"Without religious convictions, we would be so many Cains…" Russell Kirk, The Politics of Prudence