Marijuana: 'Prohibition is a disaster'
By Joseph McNamara and Stephen Downing
Proposition 19 presents California voters with a simple choice: Continue a policy that has failed completely, causes massive harm and can never work — or say yes to a common-sense approach that destroys a $14 billion black market run by violent thugs and replaces it with a legal, controlled market, all while eliminating enforcement costs and bringing in new tax revenue.
As former big-city police officials, we're saying yes to the rational approach that regulates marijuana like alcohol and cigarettes.
After decades of marijuana prohibition, with millions of arrests and billions of dollars spent, the results are in. Prohibition is a disaster.
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