It’s Time to Legalize Marijuana. It’s What Majorities of Democrats and Republicans Want | Opinion

We know that consuming marijuana does not make a person want to kill. Yet our federal laws are still largely based on these misconceptions.
In 1961, Harry J. Anslinger, America’s first drug czar, published a book explaining why 24 years earlier, he successfully pushed Congress to pass legislation effectively criminalizing marijuana. “A s…