CNN vs. THC

Last night Lou Dobbs Tonight made the case for continued marijuana prohibition. Arguments from their bewildering array of experts fell into three broad categories:

1. Marijuana use is harmful to the user,
2. Marijuana is a gateway drug, and
3. Marijuana legalization advocates don't want to stop there. If they have their way with smoke, legalization of heroin, cocaine and MDMA are surely next.

But # 3 is not technically an argument against legalization, and # 2 is simply an extension of # 1. More, # 1 is a paper tiger. Smoking cigarettes and overeating, to name only two, are far more harmful than is smoking marijuana, yet they are still legal. And they should be.

If this is the best the opposition can offer, legalization proponents should expect an easy victory. So where is this easy victory, then?