Jacob Sullum on How Not to Legalize Pot

Tomorrow voters in Alaska,
Oregon, and Washington, D.C., will decide whether to
legalize marijuana. If they look for guidance to the two states
that took that step in 2012, says Jacob Sullum, they will see a
situation in Colorado that falls far short of the
cannabis catastrophe predicted by prohibitionists. The legal
industry is thriving, although it has not entirely displaced
the black market yet, and marijuana-related problems are
minimal so far, although controversy swirls around issues such
as regulation of edibles and restrictions on
consumption. If voters contemplating legalization turn their
attention to Washington, Sullum says, there are lessons to be
learned there too, but they mostly concern what not to do.

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