US NJ: PUB LTE: Legal Marijuana A Source Of Revenue

The Times, 06 Dec 2012 – Marijuana may be fully legal before many New Jersey patients benefit from the medical marijuana law signed by former Gov. Jon Corzine three years ago. Last month, the voters of Colorado and Washington state made it clear that drug warriors can no longer get away with confusing the drug war’s collateral damage with a comparatively harmless plant. If the goal of marijuana prohibition is to subsidize violent drug cartels, prohibition is a success: The "drug war" distorts supply and demand dynamics so that big money grows on little trees.