Thinking Clearly

This particular drug war must be called a failure 

The Boston Globe-Letters

 

... If the goal of marijuana prohibition is to deter use, prohibition is a failure.

  

The United States has double the rate of marijuana use as the Netherlands, where marijuana is legally available. The criminalization of Americans who prefer marijuana to martinis has no basis in science. The war on marijuana consumers is a failed cultural inquisition, not an evidence-based public health campaign. As a nation, we face a looming fiscal cliff. We can no longer subsidize culture warrior prejudices. It’s time to stop the arrests and instead tax legal marijuana.

 
Robert Sharpe
Policy analyst
 
Common Sense
for Drug Policy
 
Arlington, Va.