The growing campaign for legalizing marijuana has what would appear to be an unlikely supporter: the National Review.
The conservative magazine published an editorial on Monday applauding Colorado for becoming the first state to make the “prudent choice” of legalizing recreational marijuana, “thus dispensing with the charade of medical restrictions and recognizing the fact that, while some people smoke marijuana to counter the effects of chemotherapy, most people smoke marijuana to get high.
The prohibition of marijuana, its editors argue, has led to “billions in enforcement costs, and hundreds of thousands of arrests each year, in a fruitless attempt to control a mostly benign drug.”
