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Editor's Note

Apr. 1, 2010

Editor's Note


It is a dangerous thing when a law becomes so divorced from reality that it starts to make the legal system look stupid. That was the case in the 1920s when the country tried to ban the sale of alcohol. Now we're seeing it once again?only this time with marijuana.

To be sure, California embarked on a noble experiment in 1996, when the state's voters approved a ballot initiative to permit the use and dist...

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