Why marijuana legalization isn't like gay marriage
Four decades after Richard Nixon declared drugs “public enemy No. 1 in the United States,” the tide has turned on marijuana legalization. States are racing to follow Colorado and Washington in ending prohibition, and national politicians are scrambling to get out of the way.
In the Senate, big names from both parties support a bill — the Compassionate Access, Research Expansion and Respect States (CARERS) Act — that would move marijuana out of Schedule I, the designation for heroin and other drugs with “no currently accepted medical use,” and into Schedule II, a group of substances that doctors can prescribe under certain circumstances. And in an interview with Vice’s Shane Smith, President Barack Obama tacitly confirmed that the federal government would now let individual states proceed at their own pace. Think of it as the gay marriage strategy for surviving social change while in national office: Stay agnostic and let the states...
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