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Last Saturday, Gov. Gary Johnson of New Mexico and Dr. Lester Grinspoon of the Harvard Medical School rightly advocated the decriminalization of marijuana. These men should be commended for having the courage to address issues that most politicians and academics choose to avoid. As they pointed out, the prohibition of marijuana causes more injustice and social problems than the drug itself—similar to the alcohol prohibition in the 1920s—and thus the ban on its use should...
Last year, the government spent approximately $30 billion of state, local and federal tax dollars and arrested more than 734,000 individuals to support the futile and destructive prohibition of marijuana. But even with all the government’s money and arrests, last year 89 percent of high school seniors said marijuana was “fairly or very easy?...
...surprisingly, marijuana enjoys widespread use and is far from dangerous. Eighty million Americans have tried marijuana, making it the third most popular drug in the United States. The only two more popular drugs, alcohol and tobacco, are both far more dangerous (and yet legal), with alcohol poisoning causing approximately 50,000 deaths per year and tobacco use causing over...
America should adopt a system resembling that of the Netherlands, which allows adults to use marijuana responsibly and minimizes minors’ exposure—leading to lower use among adolescents than in the United States. Marijuana is sold in government-regulated “coffee shops,” which must follow five basic regulations: no advertising, no sales of hard drugs, no nuisance, no sales to people under 18 and no sales of more than five grams per transaction. Individual municipalities can regulate closing times and other rules for coffee shops. In general, individuals are allowed to possess...
...Nicole J. McDermott ’02 has been spending all her money on marijuana, Vicodin and Frito-Lay’s “salsa con queso.” Her parents, noticing that she’s been making increasingly large withdrawals from their bank account each month, finally questioned her this week: “What in the world have you been spending all this money on? Alcohol?” Thinking quickly, McDermott confirmed their worst suspicions, which were “way less sketchy than the painkiller and cheese-dip reality...