Cannabis Odds: Blunt Talk About Legalization

Full-fledged cannabis legalization: is it only a matter of time? Before we get to the odds on the topic de jure, a little context.

Cannabis was a part of America’s consciousness long before Harry Chapin’s song “Taxi” was on the airwaves in the early 1970s, and even before grass enthusiasts endured days of rain at Woodstock a few years earlier.

A swath of modern musicians and other celebrities continue to be staunch advocates of cannabis and its legalization. (Snoop Dogg even has his own product line, Leafs by Snoop!) But the same can’t be said of lawmakers, so it was somewhat startling when Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher recently admitted that he had used cannabis to help deal with persistent pain from arthritis. “First time in a year and a half that I’ve had a decent night’s sleep,” he said in a speech to the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, according to CannabisRadio.com....

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