y to debate the merits of marijuana for medical purposes when the issue was presented to voters in the form of statewide ballot propositions. In both states, voters agree that medical marijuana should be allowed. As of 1998, the Arizona legislature had effectively rescinded the proposition in that states, while law enforcement officials in California have adopted a range of innovative strategies to deal with their new law. All the ramifications of the new law have yet to become clear, but the debate continues about its merit, and other states are watching Californias experiment carefully.Nick Gillespie, a senior editor of Reason magazine, believes that the passage of medical marijuana initiated in California and Arizona in 1996 challenges the extreme antidrug tone of the current war on drugs. Since marijuana will no longer be seen simplistically as a purely evil substance, national leaders of the war on drugs will be forced to adopt new strategies and acknowledge the misleading nature of their rhetoric, according to Gillespie. He thinks that the legalization of marijuana as medicine may lead to wider rejection of the war on drugs.The LegalizationOf MarijuanaBy: Dylan SkoraThe Elders Point of ViewFor this point of view I interviewed my grandmothers. My grandma Sophie stated that there was a lot of drug back in her time too. The thing was that the drugs werent as publicized as they are to day so many people didnt know about them. She said that people would do it so openly to the extent that they were walking in the streets rolling or smoking in the parks. The cops wouldnt do anything to you if they saw you do that. She said that she would not like to see marijuana legalized. She said that if it was legal that some people would use it to a much higher extent then they do now, since they would think that it would be "O.K." to do. She also states that the only reason that the government would legalize it is to make there own mone...
