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Legalization will move the marijuana industry above ground, just as the repeal of alcohol prohibition restored the legal alcohol industry. A small component of the marijuana market might remain illicit—moonshine marijuana rather than moonshine whiskey—but if regulation and taxation are moderate, most producers and...
Legalization will not, of course, eliminate all negatives of marijuana use. But just as the harms of alcohol prohibition were worse than the harms of alcohol itself, the adverse effects of marijuana prohibition are worse than the unwanted consequences of marijuana use. Legalization is therefore the better policy.
The U.S. experiment with marijuana prohibition is just as misguided as was its earlier experiment with alcohol prohibition. We learned our lesson once; it is time to learn it again.
“Coach [Amaker] always says, ‘Stay ready, so you don’t have to get ready,’” Casey said. “So I just stepped in and did what I was supposed to do.”
His ears buzzing with the revelry he had just incited, Lin sprang up from the court and dashed backwards towards the hoop he had been under less than five seconds ago.