The war on drugs is burning out

Leading at the ballot box from Alaska to Washington, D.C., Americans are charting a path to a saner national drug policy
Rolling Stone (US)
Thursday, January 8, 2015

lincoln-smokingThe conservative wave of 2014 featured an unlikely, progressive undercurrent: In two states, plus the nation's capital, Americans voted convincingly to pull the plug on marijuana prohibition. Regardless of the final presidential matchup, pot initiatives in battleground states will make it impossible for the 2016 candidates to ignore the marijuana issue as they've done so often in the past, says Tom Angell, chairman of the advocacy group Marijuana Majority. "The road to the White House," he says, "travels through legal-marijuana territory."