Pubdate: Mon, 13 Jan 2014
Source: Boston Globe (MA)
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Author: Shaleen Title

FOR MARIJUANA, PROHIBITION IS THE EXPERIMENT THAT FAILED

TOM KEANE is right that Colorado's legal marijuana market may become 
a model for Massachusetts, but he misses one key point ("An 
experimental state," Op-ed, Jan. 7). Prohibition, not legalization, 
has been the experiment. Leaving the production and distribution of 
marijuana to criminals has had the same consequences as our 
experiment with alcohol prohibition: a violent market, widespread use 
of an unregulated product, and biased enforcement largely targeted at 
the disadvantaged. It's time to end this experiment, just as we did 
80 years ago.

Shaleen Title

Revere

The writer was a consultant to Colorado's Campaign to Regulate 
Marijuana Like Alcohol.
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