Current federal government drug policy is outdated and inefficient. The federal government needs to reconsider its stance on marijuana.

With purse-strings drawing ever tighter around the country, states are scrambling for ways to cut costs and increase revenues. Strategies run from upping income taxes to slashing education budgets, but citizens are understandably wary of such measures. In navigating the risky waters ahead, lawmakers should look instead to one of the silliest and most unjustified policies of our time: the prohibition of marijuana.