US Senate Hearing Examines Marijuana Legalization
U.S. senators took a deep dive into issues surrounding the legalization of marijuana on Wednesday as part of a hearing on America’s demand for illegal drugs and alternative approaches to drug control.
Although one of the nation’s leading drug policy reform activists was in the room to testify, it was a lawmaker who delivered the session’s first criticisms of the failure of prohibition.
“Like [alcohol]prohibition fueled the gangs back then, what were doing right now is fueling drug cartels, which is the reason we have an unsecured border,” said Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Noting that when he first ran for the Senate in 2010, marijuana legalization “never came up” in conversations with voters, Johnson said that he’s now being asked about it regularly.
“I’m sympathetic with the broad spectrum of arguments” for legalization, he said. “We’ve spent a trillion dollars on the war on drugs....
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