I was not expecting Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to be the voice of reason on the federal government’s continuing and inane classification of cannabis as a dangerous drug with no currently accepted medical use. But there he was late last month, the author of a five-page statement accompanying the court’s decision to turn down an appeal from a medical marijuana dispensary in Colorado. “The Federal Government’s current approach is a half-in, half-out regime that simultaneously tolerates and forbids local use of marijuana,” Thomas wrote. California, incidentally, became the first state to legalize medical marijuana when voters approved Proposition 215 in 1996. If respondents are asked only whether medical marijuana should be legal, that number soars to 91%.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 11, 2021 09:56 UTC