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"Time For Marijuana Legalization?"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the question being asked here by CBS News analyst Andrew Cohen.  Cohen picks up on the latest discussion of the costs of the death penalty to take the idea of criminal justice reform in tough times one step further.  Here are snippets: After generations of defending capital punishment and marijuana possession laws on moral, ethical and religious grounds, after years of declaring that the death penalty acted as a deterrent against violent crime and that pot smokers were more dangerous to society than, say, alcohol consumers, all of a sudden thanks to our economic crisis more and more mainstream powerbrokers are considering dramatic changes to our criminal justice system.... These declarations, from the political and legal arena, are not just isolated voices shouting into the wilderness...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 25, 2009 (boomark / email).