It took 13 years for the United States to come to its senses and end Prohibition, 13 years in which people kept drinking, otherwise law-abiding citizens became criminals and crime syndicates arose and flourished. It has been more than 40 years since Congress passed the current ban on marijuana, inflicting great harm on society just to prohibit a substance far less dangerous than alcohol.
The federal government should repeal the ban on marijuana.
We reached that conclusion after a great deal of discussion among the members of The Times’s Editorial Board, inspired by a rapidly growing movement among the states to reform marijuana laws.
Read it all from this past weekend.
You mean, like for abortion? Say it is so, NYT!
Or for same-sex marriage, dwstroudmd+. The 4th Circuit Appeals Court just knocked down Virginia’s marriage law, and since we’re in the same circuit North Carolina’s constitutional amendment is likely to be swept away by the Court.
But you see, drug use is GOOD so federal law prohibiting it is BAD. Abortion is GOOD and same-sex marriage is GOOD so those nasty states can’t be allowed to legislate on the subjects. Whether the federal government should be involved depends on the activity and whether the elite think it’s GOOD or BAD. No principles of federalism or constitutionality or self-determination by the people apply.