Is There Life After Legalization?

February, 1989

For many people--maybe for most people--the idea of legalizing drugs conjures up nightmare visions of a nation self-destructing in an orgy of chemical abuse. They presume that only they, and a few other sensible souls, could resist the lure of uncontrolled substances and would be doomed to live hunkered down behind barricaded doors--because even the police would be stoned.For those of us who are awake, the nightmare is now. What we have is defacto drug legalization. Anyone who wants drugs can ge...