Marijuana Legalization Would Be ‘a Health Catastrophe’

Published July 27, 2014 1:50pm ET



A leading drug policy researcher, David Murray, has a must-read piece up at the Hudson Institute website, “Comparing Marijuana and Alcohol: Seriously.” Murray’s article is a devastating deconstruction of claims that marijuana is relatively safe, or at least safer than alcohol. And, as he points out, it thereby undermines much of the basis of the New York Times‘s blithely irresponsible editorial endorsement of marijuana legalization.

Read Murray’s whole piece. Here are highlights:

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