MPR reports that Minnesota's Independence Party now endorses legalization, taxation, and regulation of marijuana. Alcohol has been adequately handled that way without criminal enterprise being a factor once Prohibition was lifted.

This link.

Good for the IP.

They are sane and sensible, and deserve respect for it. Shame on the two major parties for being behind times, and being too uptight on a Liberty issue. It should never have been criminalized.

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Related, and true from the days of the Palmer Raids, this.

Unrelated, but interesting fodder for thought, same site, this.