More than 65 professors from many of America’s top law schools have signed a letter urging Californians to vote “yes” on Proposition 19, a measure that would would decriminalize the recreational use and cultivation of small amounts of marijuana by adults. The letter says that “as with alcohol prohibition,” the nation’s laws have failed to control marijuana, resulting in “an unregulated and increasingly violent black market.” Among those calling for passage of California’s Regulate, Control, and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010 are such legal luminaries as Randy Barnett of Georgetown University, Erwin Chemerinsky of the University of California at Irvine, Alan Dershowitz of Harvard University, Ilya Somin of George Mason University, Nadine Strossen of New York University, and Alexander Volokh of Emory University.
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