Legalizing marijuana will hurt drug lords, help cash-strapped states, and ease burdens on police and prisons. Yet D.C. dithers

Eventually, the federal government needs to repeal all of its laws against marijuana use, production, and dealing.The law needs to be replaced by laws similar to those that apply to liquor. Just as it was with the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, Congress could allow states to continue marjuana prohibition by local option, or to draft their own regulatory systems

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