Rick Steves: Pot is now used by Mom and Dad. And Grandma's rubbing it on her elbows
I'm a hard-working, kid-raising, churchgoing, tax-paying American. And if I work hard all day and want to go home, smoke a joint and stare at my fireplace for three hours, that's my civil liberty. This is my basic, principled message on marijuana legalization, a cause I've promoted for many years.
But my interest is grounded in something more: 50 years ago, President Richard Nixon declared war on drugs. And his administration made sure to include marijuana as a public enemy, even listing it in the "Schedule I" category of drugs, alongside heroin, where it remains to this day. In the decades since, millions of Americans have been arrested and imprisoned on marijuana charges.