The writers of The Wire have penned a moving op-ed piece in which they decry the damaging effects of the War and Drugs and announce their intention to mount small but important acts of resistance against it:

If asked to serve on a jury deliberating a violation of state or federal drug laws, we will vote to acquit, regardless of the evidence presented. Save for a prosecution in which acts of violence or intended violence are alleged, we will — to borrow Justice Harry Blackmun's manifesto against the death penalty — no longer tinker with the machinery of the drug war. No longer can we collaborate with a government that uses nonviolent drug offenses to fill prisons with its poorest, most damaged and most desperate citizens.

With two presidents in a row whose prior drug use is publicly known, and millions of Americans users of drugs both legal and illegal, couldn't we re-examine the War on Drugs? Couldn't we, if nothing else, decriminalize marijuana? Anyone who believes alcohol and tobacco should be legal must admit, in my book, that marijuana should be legal or decriminalized as well.
Unless you're still one of those people who thinks it'll turn you gay.
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