Tuesday, 21 June 2011

The fiscal case for legalising marijuana

Marcy Dolin, of Rohnert Park, California, smokes eight joints (marijuana cigarettes) every day, and eats a marijuana cookie before he goes to bed every night. He prefers the peanut-butter cookies.

A 71-year-old man who has struggled with multiple-sclerosis for over half his life, Dolin is not the typical drug user often parodied in popular culture. He does not smoke recreationally, but rather because marijuana is the only thing that takes away the pain and stops the muscles spasms.

"Without [marijuana], I would be living on morphine and other horrible drugs. I couldn't do that to my family," he recently told the New York Times. "That's no life, and I would have ended it. That's the truth."

Read the full story at the Guardian

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