This decision recognizes a truth America learned the hard way nearly a century ago: that Prohibition is a losing approach to a drug that people want, like alcohol in the 1920s, and marijuana more recently.
Of these three legal psychoactive drugs, caffeine seems the one that’s come out the best.
Just about everywhere you look, and throughout our history, we Americans have been using psychoactive drugs.
Whether the beneficial potential of marijuana is realized depends on people understanding how to use it wisely.
It might be useful, in the context of that cultural demonization of the drug, to contemplate the implications of a recent archaeological discovery.