After the disastrous article on marijuana addiction they ran Friday, the New York Times appears to be trying to regain some credibility with today’s follow-up: If Marijuana Is Legal, Will Addiction Rise?
They interview Roger Roffman, Wayne Hall, Mark A.R. Kleiman, Peter Reuter, and Norm Stamper about marijuana addiction under legalization. The consensus among all five is that it is much ado about nothing, despite the fact that some of these five are prohibition-enablers.
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[…] Seattle’s other former police chief (and legalization/regulation advocate) Norm Stamper sent this my way—evidence that the nation’s drug czar…