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Dear Wall Street Journal: Your Students Need Better Legalization Arguments

The Wall Street Journal’s Future View recently asked college students whether marijuana should be legal. Several of them wrote thoughtful pieces. A few of them wrote arguments that collapse the moment you apply them consistently. I respect the exercise, and I respect that these are young people working through genuinely complex policy questions. But bad arguments don’t improve with politeness, so let’s get into it.

Jason

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