Legalizing Recreational Marijuana: Another Pandora’s Box Opened?
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When I was an adolescent in the 1960’s, I remember Sergeant Joe Friday of the popular television program Dragnet, discussing all the deficits of marijuana and arresting people either for using or potentially selling marijuana. I remember his immortal line “I judge weed
by the company it keeps”. Moreover, the popular television show Cops, which aired until 2013, further reinforced these ideals.
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