Costly US drug policy deserves serious look, not politics as usual
(NEWSER) - When President Obama dismissed a question recently about the legalization of marijuana, he was “taking the traditional path of least resistance,” writes Joe Klein in Time. In America, anyone who dares to speak seriously about the issue will “be cast into the outer darkness,” assumed forever to be a stoner. But the irrational policy needs to change, Klein says, for reasons “of economy and simple justice.” More»
