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I’m heading out to talk to the Golden K Kiwanis in Quincy, Illinois on Monday morning about ending prohibition. On Wednesday evening, I’ll be moderating Tough Trade-Offs: The Drug Legalization Debate in Urbana/Champaign, Illinois, and on Friday, I’ll be off to Washington, DC for the SSDP conference. All this while having a particularly heavy week […]

Chicago SunTimes OpEd favors Marijuana Legalization

Monroe Anderson, in today’s Chicago Sun-Times, has It’s time to legalize marijuana in Illinois.

In the past year, the pot prohibition has produced record devil-weed arrests and a bumper crop of American POWs in our nation’s prisons. In 2005, there 786,545 marijuana arrests — 696,074 just for possession. About 34,000 state and 11,000 federal inmates […]

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