Not That Kind of Smoke-Filled Room

A primary reason for lawmakers? reticence is that, for decades, the most visible advocates of looser weed laws have been, well, weed smokers?and what serious politician wants to be associated with a bunch of stoners, man? Earlier this decade, wealthy liberals like George Soros and Peter Lewis (once busted for pot-smoking himself) recognized that problem and shifted the debate to medical marijuana, giving the movement a more sympathetic public face: an ailing grandmother rather than a dreadlocked coach potato. Several states have since passed medical marijuana laws, but they don?t address the bigger issue at play here. It?s recreational users, not glaucoma patients, whose money fuels the illicit drug trade that finances criminal gangs.

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