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Legalize It All, by Dan Baum, Cover Story, April 2016, Harper's Magazine (quoting Eric Sterling Legalize It All, by Dan Baum, Cover Story, April 2016, Harper's Magazine (quoting Eric Sterling. WELCOME TO THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE POLICY FOUNDATION. WE WORK FOR AN HONEST, FAIR AND EFFICIENT CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. The United States is at a fork in the road in its journey to confront drug use. Since the days of President Richard M. Nixon, the U.S. has relied upon an enforcement approach to control drug use. Our goals have been to protect young people from using drugs, to save lives from the risks of drug overdose and the suffering of addiction, and to reduce crime and violence. The goals are the right goals, but the For four decades, from the 1970s, through the first decade of the 21st Century, laws have been toughened, and more money has been dedicated to fighting a war on drugs. However, since 1996, state after state has adopted laws to provide marijuana to sick people nausea, to stimulate appe*ite, to control muscle spasticity, to treat epilepsy (especially among children), and to reduce pain. Since 2012, nine states (Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, California, Nevada, Mas*achusetts, Maine and Vermont) and the District of Columbia have legalized ad*lt recreational use of marijuana, and licensing businesses to produce and sell marijuana (but not D.C.). The nation is well aware of the suffering that addictive drugs can cause. The effects varies by region. Many cities and regions lived through an epidemic of smokable cocaine in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Later, methamphetamine addiction was found in some states and cities and not others. For a decade, addiction to prescription opioids such as oxycodone (Oxycontin (R)) was especially intense in Appalachian region, New Hampshire, Florida and other states. By 2016 and 2017, addiction to opioids  (legal prescription pain medications, illegal heroin, and illegal fentanyl) became widespread in many states, and overdose deaths from these drugs increased 500% in 5