The war on drugs has been a centerpiece of U.S. policies for decades with poor results. Slowly U.S. states are starting to experiment with the legalization policies that have worked so well in countries, like The Netherlands, where drugs use and crime rates have fallen as a result of liberalization. Colorado has been leading the experiments, and analysis by the state’s health department shows some preliminary promising results: Crime rates are falling. In the past three years, marijuana charges filed in Colorado courts fell 81 percent.
U.S. is discovering that legalization of marijuana actually works
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