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For all my adult life, I’ve been among those calling for the legalization of marijuana. Below are excerpts from just a few related commentaries – dating back to 2005, the year I inaugurated this weblog – that will attest to this fact. From “Landmark Healthcare Decisions by U.S. Government,” June 12, 2005: Consider that every year 435,000… Read more.
President Obama created quite a buzz last week when he added his still-influential voice to the national debate on legalizing recreational use of marijuana. Here, in part, is what he said during an interview for the January 27 issue of the New Yorker, which the magazine actually published online on January 19: As has been… Read more.
Just last week, Gallup released a poll showing that 58 percent of Americans think that marijuana usage should be made legal, which is the first time in U.S. history that more than half of Americans have expressed support for legalization. (Huffington Post, October 29, 2013) Of course, far more compelling are data repeatedly showing that… Read more.
When it comes to progressive laws in the United States it is axiomatic that as California goes, so goes the nation. This was the case when it legalized marijuana for medicinal use in 1996. (Seventeen states, including Washington, DC, have followed suit.) Therefore, it is very noteworthy that New York is assuming this vanguard role in decriminalizing… Read more.
