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"Why Parents Should Support Legalizing Pot"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this notable commentary at AlterNet by Hanna Liebman Dershowitz, a lawyer in California who is co-chair of the Proposition 19 legal subcommittee. Here are excerpts: My son just started kindergarten. So naturally, I have been thinking a lot about the type of world and community in which I want him and our seven-year-old daughter to live.  I am involved in a project to improve school lunches in our district to reinforce the nutrition lessons we teach in our home.  I am a founding board member of a community group trying to improve our city?s parks.  And I am working to help pass Proposition 19, the initiative to control and tax marijuana in California. It is important to me as a mother that my children grow up in a state ?- hopefully a country soon ?- that rejects the ineffective and damaging policy of marijuana prohibition...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 24, 2010 (boomark / email).