James with a new book in which he admits he smoked pot in high school.
Quoth some guy on Reddit:
It sucks — a lot — that the U.S. still hasn’t gotten past the point where it’s a “revelation” that a superstar athlete smoked pot when he was 17.
We probably never will, either. But at least ESPN […]

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Some folks in California are pitching a way to solve the state’s budget crisis:
A pro-marijuana group is launching another television bid to legalize pot in California — this time with the pitch that legalizing and taxing the drug could help solve the state’s massive budget deficit.
The 30-second spot, airing Wednesday and paid for by the […]

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Via Sullivan, who rarely has time for anything but Iran these days - a piece in Slate which indicates that states’ revenue woes are one big reason why we’re hearing more about the possibility of legalizing marijuana:
Jeffrey Miron, a Harvard economist and proponent of broad drug decriminalization, suggests that we look to alcohol and cigarette […]

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