Yes, I think we should legalize marijuana--and maybe all drugs.

But the big news is that some prominent conservative Republicans agree with me.

What is it about marijuana that makes politicians hallucinate? The faintest whiff of "the weed of madness" (as government propaganda used to call it) causes them to see distorted images of things that aren't there and never were: law and order, justice, reelection. But they don't see the obvious.

The war on drugs was lost years ago, and pretending otherwise only makes the problem worse.

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