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California voters will have the opportunity in November to legalize marijuana through the ballot box. Cannabis legalization is a complicated and contentious issue, requiring every voter to search his or her own soul. There are no easy answers.
Promethean Times will not attempt to influence popular opinion by revealing our stand on this hot-button issue. We recommend instead that the public seek an unbiased opinion about the pros and cons of marijuana legalization from experts such as this distinguished gentleman:
Tommy Chong: Leaning Toward A Yes Vote
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As a Liberal who was surrounded by people using drugs while at college but who never used them myself (Single Malt Scotch is my poison of choice), I think legalization is long over due.
It should be followed very closely by granting pardons to everyone who is prison for the simple possession of marijuana. People who shouldn’t have been in prison to begin with.
No kidding. When you hear about prisons being so overcrowded that inmates are released early, you can’t help but wonder how different things would be if drugs (not just marijuana) were legalized.
One thing which probably keeps the governement from doing something like pardoning previous non-violent drug offenders is the idea of all those formerly incarcerated men hitting the job market at the same time.
I am less sanguine about legalizing many other drugs. Most of them are both physically addictive and terribly destructive to the human body. They are far more dangerous than pot. I don’t know what good we achieve by legalization. My natural inclination is to legalize all of them (for adults) and to execute people who provide them to kids.
But marijuana is not addictive and is relatively benign (as much as any smoke that you deliberately inhale can be).