re: #48 SteveMcGazi

I’m lukewarm about legalizing marijuana…. If it is still being smuggled, do the consumers feel any complicity in the murders committed by drug traffickers?

There is a different point of view, that the murders committed by the drug traffickers are a consequence of making marijuana illegal in the first place. Exactly like the alcohol-related murders during the Prohibition of alcohol.

There is wider and wider recognition that the consequences of the War on Drugs include organized crime, increased violence, and hundreds of thousands of non-violent Americans incarcerated on drug offenses. More and more, drug prohibition is understood to be an Epic Fail, and I believe its time is just about done.