Prohibition doesn't work because no amount of deadly force, self-righteous piety, or wishful thinking could ever overcome the innate desire to alter one's consciousness, self-medicate for physiological, psychological or spiritual reasons, or simply express one's freedom of choice.

If you support prohibition then you're either a black market profiteer, a terrorist, a corrupt politician, a sadomoralist, a socialist or a fake-conservative.

If you support prohibition then you've helped trigger the worst crime wave in history, raising gang warfare to a level not seen since the days of alcohol bootlegging.

If you support prohibition you've helped to make these dangerous substances available in schools and prisons.

If you support prohibition you're promoting a policy which kills our children, endangers our troops, counteracts our foreign policy and reduces much of the developing world to anarchy.

Neurotics build castles in the sky, psychotics live in them; the concept of a "Drug-Free Society" is a neurotic fantasy and Prohibition's ills are a product of this psychotic delusion.

Prohibition is nothing less than a grotesque dystopian nightmare; if you support it you must be either ignorant, stupid, brainwashed, corrupt or criminally insane.

If you support prohibition then prepare yourself for even more death, corruption, sickness, imprisonment, unemployment, foreclosed homes, and the complete loss of the rule of law and the Bill of Rights.

"Dry" as in alcohol is not sold in public. Soaking wet as in alcohol and drugs are consumed regularly by residents and visitors...Just check the police blotter and you will see drug related arrests even in our "dry" OCNJ. Malcolm does make some good points though. Even the drug czar under President Regan reversed his position and eventually said that legalization of at least marijuana made sense in every way and that a war on drugs was a war on people and didn't work. We tried that with cigarettes and lost. When we stopped the war on smokers and went to long term education smoking rates decreased significantly. It was a long, slow, and expensive process but it did work. The desire for immediate results that drives much public policy is often problematic in the long run. We need to invest in things like education and ways to give people better opportunities for improvement.

Medical Marijuana can stand on its years of successful treatment with the side-effects of cancer therapy as a proven time tested drug. Using the medical marijuana law to circumvent the criminal laws against marijuana will be inevitable. Although Malcolm may be considered over-the-top by some and a prophet by others, the result will be a relaxation of pot laws that have ruined lives. For example, the last three presidents of the United States admitted experimenting with marijuana (one did not inhale). If any of those men were caught smoking they would never have been eligible to be President due to a criminal record. The point is the Drug Laws currently hurt society more than the drugs, by ruining lives with criminal records, which keep people out of some colleges, some professions, and expose people to a criminal element. I say legalize and tax, the state needs the money.

LEGALIZE & TAX !!!!
Let's be smart and do this !!!
Marijuana is not bad !! It's as natural as a fruit or vegetable because it is not man made !
Go find the real criminals, weed is not a crime !!

Amen brother. If I have a loved one or even myself contract a debilitating disease, and the treatment makes things worse without the ability to alleviate some side effects, then for sure I am for legal marijuana under supervision by a medical doctor. I am also for relaxed drug laws because to enforce our War on Drugs has become too expensive, and the punishments are prejudicial and uneven. The punishment in New York for a joint is the forfeiture of the joint to the cops. In Tennessee, the punishment could be a year in jail. Finally, the lost revenue in taxes could significantly help state and local governments.