We as a society and country need to move beyond our broken prohibition model to a more sensible tax and regulated one. It’s widely recognized that marijuana is nowhere near as harmful as alcohol and tobacco. A drug that is proven to be less dangerous, from a health perspective, than alcohol and tobacco should not be under laws that criminalize and ruin lives when alcohol and tobacco are regulated and taxed. I guess this is just wishful thinking; the reality is that here in the North Country, law enforcement agencies are still beating that same drum. Unfortunately the inconsistencies from state to state with marijuana laws represent a disconnect towards the fact that we are supposed to be a united nation. When a person does something in one state that is completely legal and another person does the exact same thing in another state and is arrested, incarcerated, has their picture in the paper, embarrassed, humiliated and in some instances loses their job, it is neither fair nor balanced. As a country, we owe it to ourselves to look in the mirror and rid ourselves of this hypocrisy.