TPM Reader BT has a bracing, hard response in our on-going discussion of marijuana legalization. He’s responding to this response from TPM Reader RG. I basically agree …

Sorry, but that person’s take is completely incoherent and ignores the lessons of history. Criminalized vice is inevitably the criminalization of being poor. Because that’s where enforcement falls and that’s where changes hands most openly — not because use and abuse are uniquely prevalent there.

Criminalization of the poor and brown, in my opinion, is the single greatest problem our country faces. By far. The mechanism for that is drug prohibition.

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