CANNABIS CULTURE - What is arguably the most influential and respected newspaper in the United States is ready to free the weed. In a Sunday editorial, the New York Times called forthrightly for the end of federal marijuana prohibition.
CANNABIS CULTURE - National Review's blog reports that Weekly Standard Online editor Daniel Halper's new book Clinton, Inc. quotes an unnamed friend and law-school classmate of Hillary Clinton who says: "She was an enthusiastic pot user."
It took 13 years for the United States to come to its senses and end Prohibition, 13 years in which people kept drinking, otherwise law-abiding citizens became criminals and crime syndicates arose and flourished.
Justin Blackmon, the Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver under indefinite NFL suspension for violating the NFL's substance abuse policy, was arrested Wednesday night in Edmond, Okla.