<blockquote>By <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/03/opinion/brooks-weed-been-there-done-that.html?h=0AQHMwIfu&amp;enc=AZMa6MX8jWYtafJVuwohRLj7b6JsJ1us8Bx9dx3bbVyQ-dpvr1SSPqCxDLVeUIP8_gIMyjc8thzAa1PmWjYf91JRwnCyie73Sl_inkQ-ldwyW8D5n9UoSF6zOccLCHbUAYHdgeUkfjCUzIZ7YU28bQ5v&amp;s=1&amp;smid=fb-share">Brooks</a>' and <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ruth-marcus-the-perils-of-legalized-pot/2014/01/02/068cee6e-73e9-11e3-8b3f-b1666705ca3b_story.html">Marcus</a>' own admission, marijuana itself doesn't necessarily have such bad effects. They both smoked quite a bit of it back in the day and still managed highly successful careers as national opinion columnists. Really, they are worried about marijuana's negative second-order effects when <em>other</em> people smoke it.

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via <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/why-not-throw-people-in-jail-for-being-fat-2014-1#ixzz2pNNiaIZJ">Why Not Throw People In Jail For Being Fat? - Business Insider</a>.
<blockquote><span><span>Brooks, Marcus, and Brown want to address these negative effects through a regime of criminal penalties that imprisons at least some subset of the people involved in cultivating, distributing and consuming the marijuana that Brooks and Marcus enjoyed so much in the 1970s.</span></span></blockquote>