Regarding your editorial "Marijuana Reform": in 1875, Boston's own Lysander Spooner proposed the following, with respect to alcohol prohibition, in his essay "Vices Are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty":

The statute book of Massachusetts makes 10 years the age at which a female child is supposed to have discretion enough to part with her virtue. But the same statute book holds that no person, man or woman, of any age, or any degree of wisdom or experience, has discretion enough to be trusted to buy and drink a glass of spirits, on his or her own judgment! What an illustration of the legislative wisdom of Massachusetts!

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