A Ballot Push to Legalize Marijuana, With Alcohol as the Role Model

A Ballot Push to Legalize Marijuana, With Alcohol as the Role Model - NYTimes.com:

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Proponents of marijuana have argued for years that the drug is safer than alcohol, both to individuals and society. But a ballot proposal to legalize possession of marijuana in small amounts in Colorado, likely to be on the November ballot, is putting the two intoxicants back into the same sentence, urging voters to “regulate marijuana like alcohol,” as the ballot proposition’s title puts it.