I'm an ex-prosecutor and I now believe that marijuana should be legalized

[kanrok]

Yes. I've argued in the past that even marijuana should not be legalized. I reasoned that legalizing marijuana is a slippery slope. I actually believed it. But the recent Supreme Court decision making medicinal use of marijuana illegal under federal law makes me crazy. We would all be better off if this relatively innocuous drug were legal. Make it legal. Tax the hell out of it, and keep it out of the hands of minors and it wouldn't bother me at all. Heresey coming from the ex-chief of drug prosecutions. But sometimes we must re-evaluate our core beliefs.