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Point of order - marijuana legalization is not synonymous with the particular legal and regulatory regime for medical marijuana adopted in Los Angeles, CA.
All I said was that the case wasn't cut and dried...
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Global warming is a better test of irrationality that theism
http://lesswrong.com/lw/9n/the_uniquely_awful_example_of_theism/
Tests which were proposed in the comments include whether a person favours legalization of marijuana, and whether they believe in astrology. (Well, the one about marijuana also includes value judgements: two perfectly rational agents with identical priors and access to the same evidence would agree about the possible effects of marijuana legalization but disagree about whether they're good or bad because of different utility functions.)
I'm not sure the case for marijuana legalization is cut and dried even for pot lovers:
"Our neighborhoods continue to complain daily about the disruption and public safety issues presented by medical marijuana businesses operating in the city,'' says [a popular Los Angeles City Councilman].
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/LA-Medical-Marijuana-Pot-Law-Huizar-Motion-134390463.html
Maybe marijuana really does cause less trouble overall if the law forces you to smoke it on the sly.
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'disruption and public safety' sounds like it would be a kind of trouble an order of magnitude or two below trouble like 'the destroying of thousands of lives through courts & prisons'.
How about making penalties for marijuana use lighter?