NYT: Oops, we were wrong about marijuana

The editorial board of the New York Times walked back its previous stance on marijuana legalization on Monday in an editorial titled “It’s Time for America to Admit That It Has a Marijuana Problem.” The New York Times has “long supported marijuana legalization,” it wrote. Part of this campaign, a six-part series comparing the federal ban on marijuana to the prohibition of alcohol and advocating for its repeal, described marijuana addiction and dependency as “relatively minor problems” and said that legalization “might not lead to greater use.” Its editors now admit that “many of these predictions were wrong,” and that the legalization of the drug “has led to much more use,” citing data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, indicating that 18 million Americans use marijuana almost daily, up from about 6 million in 2012 and fewer than 1 million in 1992. Read the Trumpet’s warning against this dangerous drug in “What’s Wrong With Marijuana?”