Politicians Are Shooting Themselves in the Foot By Opposing Marijuana Legalization

NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—April 7, 2014. A majority of Americans support marijuana legalization — yet not one sitting governor or U.S. senator supports it, according to a New York Times piece.

Marijuana prohibition is a disastrous failure. 43 years after President Nixon launched the “war on drugs,” the U.S. arrests 650,000 people a year for marijuana possession — yet marijuana and other illegal drugs are as available as ever. Thanks to the drug war, the U.S.…