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Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill is urging state lawmakers not to give any consideration to the prospect of legalizing marijuana.
In a recent opinion article published by the Indianapolis Star, Curtis cautioned lawmakers to beware of the dreaded marijuana lobby, which he believes is masterminding an evil scheme to make weed fully legal in the Hoosier State.
“These activists want you to believe their end goal is inevitable. The only question in their minds is how long they must wait for the rest of us backward Hoosiers (as they see us) to embrace their agenda,” he wrote, adding that, “one must concede that odds are tilting in favor of legalization.”
Attorney General Curtis, the state’s leading law enforcement officer, continued by spewing a series of cliché arguments against marijuana legalization and suggesting that it causes “long-term risks to health, safety, education and employment, especially among those who start young.”
However, Curtis fails to acknowledge that one of the main arguments in favor of legalization is that it makes it more difficult for children to get their hands on marijuana – ideally, putting the substance only in the…
