Hillary's hypocrisy on marijuana legalization

The presidential front-runner claims black lives matter but won’t support a popular reform that would save black lives

Toward the end of the first Democratic debate last week, the moderator, Anderson Cooper, brought up the topic of marijuana with a joke. “Some of the candidates have tried marijuana, as have pretty much — probably everybody in this room,” he said. The largely white, upper-middle-class audience laughed. Of course they had.

Marijuana is by far the most ubiquitous illegal drug in the United States: 49 percent of Americans have tried pot at least once, and more than a quarter of Americans under 30 have smoked up in the last month. If the aim of keeping marijuana illegal is to make it unavailable and discourage people from using it, it’s hard to think of a policy that has failed more miserably. Tens of millions Americans, including the last...

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