"What Just Happened?": a view from the State House (and other musings)

To legalize or not to legalize

February 16, 2010

Tags: Drugs, illegal drugs

I always imagined that the push to legalize marijuana came from small-time users who otherwise lived within the law--i.e. generally law-abiding folks who didn't want to go to jail for what they considered a harmless activity. In all honesty, it wasn't an issue that I gave much thought to.

But over the past decade I've spent more time working in jails, off and on, (more…)