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"US appeals court judge endorses legal marijuana"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this new AP article.  Here are excerpts: Judge Juan Torruella tells a law school audience in Puerto Rico that experimenting with legalization of marijuana and perhaps other drugs is a better way to reduce drug abuse and crime. The 77-year-old judge says it's the only "realistic" alternative since the drug war has been "lost" at a high cost to society.... Torruella sits on the Boston-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.  He was nominated to be a federal judge by President Gerald Ford and elevated to the appeals court by President Ronald Reagan in 1984.

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on November 10, 2010 (boomark / email).