Is there a significant difference between legalizing marijuana and, say, heroin or methamphetamines?
The illicit-drug industry comes in at $400 billion a year. That kind of money guarantees violence and corruption — the kind of violence that we see across Mexico and have seen for decades in our own country. That threatens to really get out of control as Mexican drug cartels set up operations in American cities, which they have now done in well over 230 U.S. cities, including Seattle. So the rationale for ending prohibition on drugs is a stronger one, I would contend, for the harder drugs than it is for the so-called softer drugs. Other than legalizing drugs, what other policies would you like to see enacted on drug use and drug addiction? Kids clearly should not be taking any drugs. Their parents need a lot of help in the form of truth. The last thing you want to do is to lie to a 14-year-old, for example, about marijuana because that 14-year-old probably sees through the lie. Because [the lie is] told by somebody in a position of authority — a police officer, a teacher, a parent —
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