The time has come to legalize and regulate marijuana use and commerce. It is time to:

1) Start managing and regulating the widespread marijuana commerce to actively serve the public, just like we do with alcohol, including taxation, ensuring safe ingredients, limiting what is sold, when, where and to whom.

2) Stop funding the insanity of the illegal drug trade that brings dangerous criminals into our communities and generates violent anarchy in Mexico and elsewhere.

3) Accept that the replay of our Puritanical obsession with prohibition utterly ignores reality and is impossible to enforce -- recreational use of marijuana is simply part and parcel of our culture, even if many of us, myself included, don't participate.

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