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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe New York Times calls for a second end to prohibition.
It took 13 years for the United States to come to its senses and end Prohibition, 13 years in which people kept drinking, otherwise law-abiding citizens became criminals and crime syndicates arose and flourished. It has been more than 40 years since Congress passed the current ban on marijuana, inflicting great harm on society just to prohibit a substance far less dangerous than alcohol.
The federal government should repeal the ban on marijuana.
We reached that conclusion after a great deal of discussion among the members of The Timess Editorial Board, inspired by a rapidly growing movement among the states to reform marijuana laws.
There are no perfect answers to peoples legitimate concerns about marijuana use. But neither are there such answers about tobacco or alcohol, and we believe that on every level health effects, the impact on society and law-and-order issues the balance falls squarely on the side of national legalization. That will put decisions on whether to allow recreational or medicinal production and use where it belongs at the state level.
the rest (quite a spread NYT):
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/27/opinion/sunday/high-time-marijuana-legalization.html?_r=0
tridim
(45,358 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)navarth
(5,927 posts)....better late than never, I guess.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)punishment, deaths, black markets, lives ruined and all of the rest makes us look like a really stupid country, and, it has destroyed the same in other countries. Damn, the US REALLY needs to wake the fuck up!
LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)until and unless we stop privatizing prisons and making criminalization profitable.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)As a first, immediate step?
Is it because that would put pressure on the President?
daleanime
(17,796 posts)Dustlawyer
(10,497 posts)what the doctors have me on for my painful nerve disease! The now want to implant a pump in my body to release medication constantly in my spine. I already have a neural stimulator implanted and wired in my spine. Please pass this shit, I am tired of hurting and taking piss tests like a criminal probationer every time it see the doctor!
meti57b
(3,584 posts)I have never tried it, but I might ask, is it as good as a plain ol' brewski, ......preferably Heineken? (It's a lady's beer
Uncle Joe
(58,426 posts)Thanks for the thread, kpete.
tridim
(45,358 posts)Because I guess sick people going to jail is such a knee slapper.