From the NEW YORK TIMES:
…“I really believe we should treat marijuana the way we treat beverage alcohol,” Mr. Robertson said in an interview on Wednesday. “I’ve never used marijuana and I don’t intend to, but it’s just one of those things that I think: this war on drugs just hasn’t succeeded.”…
Mr. Robertson, 81, said that there had been no single event or moment that caused him to embrace legalization. Instead, his conviction that the nation “has gone overboard on this concept of being tough on crime” built up over time, he added.
“It’s completely out of control,” Mr. Robertson said. “Prisons are being overcrowded with juvenile offenders having to do with drugs. And the penalties, the maximums, some of them could get 10 years for possession of a joint of marijuana. It makes no sense at all.”
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EDITOR: The Watchdog only uses legal drugs such as alcohol, coffee and Diet Coke. Having spent two decades as a pioneer decrying the inane prohibition against the use of marijuana, a substance far more benign than alcohol, today I have the sense of having seen it all.
A hero is retired professor Arnold Trebach who with Kevin Zeese founded the Drug Policy Foundation in 1986 when even discussion of drug policy reform and harm reduction was taboo.
