The National Legalization of Marijuana Use: A Policy Whose Time Has Come? After almost a Century?"

This column is about marijuana and other drug (tobacco and alcohol) use, the so-called "Drug War," and two reports on marijuana, one from 1970 and the other current. They both came to the same conclusion: marijuana-use has few potential harms, and should be legalized. Of course we are now into the 6th decade of the "War on Drugs" which has done virtually nothing for drug use, but has caused great harms. Some history is here.