A portion of Allen St. Pierre’s essay for National Public Radio:

Cannabis prohibition has been an abject failure as a public policy since it was created and fostered by the federal government in 1937. In a country where alcohol, tobacco and pharmaceutical products are lawful, controlled and taxed commerce for adult use — despite the addicting, dangerous and deadly nature of them, annually killing an approximate 25,000, 400,000 and 100,000 Americans respectively — it makes no sense to criminalize the responsible use of the nonlethal cannabis plant by adults.

Cannabis is not harmless; no drug is, including aspirin. However, with no measured “lethal dose” and no fatalities on record, cannabis, as compared to alcohol, pharmacologically speaking, is a remarkably safe and nontoxic drug.

via Last Dance With Mary Jane? Not Yet : NPR.

The flood of media attention continues.  This is one of just 35 interviews Allen did for 4/20!

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