Legalization: Why conservatives should favor legalizing marijuana - CNN.com

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Why conservatives should favor legalizing marijuana - CNN.com: "If there is one clear emotion emerging before November's U.S. congressional elections, it is that citizens across the political spectrum are worried about government spending and a perceived lack of government accountability regarding where tax dollars are spent.

Oddly, the government's approach to the illegal drug problem -- which has cost U.S. taxpayers more than $2.5 trillion since former President Richard Nixon first declared America's "war on drugs" -- has been largely immune from this concern." Oct. 21, 2010, column by Evan Wood, the founder of the International Centre for Science in Drug Policy and associate professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia.