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...solitary morning walks, like so many things Nesson does, have a certain air of eccentricity, and even cause the occasional controversy. When he told the Harvard Law Record in February he smoked marijuana regularly during these strolls before class, it made national news...
After answering e-mails he reads a clipping from the Boston Herald’s gossip column about his marijuana...
...impression that a quarter of a million harmless pot smokers were arrested and locked up in jail. In fact, that number represents many different contexts: people who plead down from trafficking to possession; people with other more serious crimes which they have been arrested for, in addition to marijuana use; or those who are cited for smoking pot in a public place and are fined about $100, as with a parking ticket. As the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency reported, only 7,000 people are in federal and state jails combined where marijuana possession was their most serious offense. Our criminal...
...inconvenient too was it to simply describe the Dutch pot experience yet forget to report the consequences: a 200 percent rise in adolescent marijuana use since the commercialization and legalization of the drug in that country and a transformation of the Netherlands to the ecstasy-producing capital of the world...
Even President Jimmy Carter, whom you quote from 25 years ago, is now anti-marijuana. The 1972 commission report you cite is completely out of date since it relies on the scientific knowledge known only up to that date—no wonder only long-time drug legalization advocates seem to still mention it. It would be like touting cocaine as a safe drug now because in 1900 there was no scientific evidence yet to show its harms. In fact, marijuana use has now been shown to adversely affect those regions involved in coordinating and regulating body movements (including contributing...