Change and Hope on Drug Policy?

Change and Hope on Drug Policy?: "Brookhiser, a staid senior editor at National Review, hardly resembles the stereotypical pot smoker. But in 1992, he contracted a particularly virulent form of cancer and found that only marijuana would allow him to hold down enough food to survive the treatment.

'God forbid that anyone in this room should ever need chemotherapy,' Brookhiser testified, but if you do, 'Let me assure you that whatever you think now, or however you vote, if that moment comes to you, you will turn to marijuana. Extend that liberty to your fellow citizens.'"