Our opinion meshes, in this instance, with that of the late conservative writer William F. Buckley Jr., who once argued that “the government should treat marijuana more or less the same way it treats alcohol: It should regulate it, control it, tax it, and make it illegal only for children.”President Barack Obama has requested more than $14 billion to fund the drug war at the federal level in 2009. State and local enforcement costs drive that figure far higher.
Year after year, a few hundred thousand people end up in court and prison as a result of drug crimes. Our overcrowded prisons are just one reason to take another look at some of our drug laws.
Granted, there are still many dangerous drugs out there. Highly addictive drugs like methamphetamine or crack cocaine swept through our nation’s cities and suburbs and rural communities like epidemics.
But legions of studies have shown that marijuana isn’t addictive
via U.S. should put an end to war on drugs, legalize pot – The Denver Post.
Newspapers are openly calling to legalize marijuana. It’s coming!
