If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. That appears to be the approach for one Michigan prohibitionist group that was originally created to fight cannabis legalization but is now supporting it.
When Eric Holder held his tongue when he held the office as US attorney general. Now that he is a civilian, the nation's former top cop is singing quite a different tune.
Governor Tom Wolf announced this week that eight medical schools—including the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and Penn State College of Medicine—have been approved by the state to conduct medical marijuana research.
In December 2015, with much fanfare and political grandstanding, the Pittsburgh City Council announced it had passed an ordinance decriminalizing cannabis.
As more and more states jump on the cannabis legalization bandwagon, one sticky problem is slowly being addressed: How does society make things right again for those who were previously convicted of marijuana possession? Individual states — and, indeed, individual...