Sorry, not going to fly. first of all the article never mentions whether there was an increase in use. It suggests it, but in the analysis it never discusses whether use in San Francisco generally increased or not.
AND the study compares Amsterdam to San Francisco. San Francisco? How much higher could drug use go in San Francisco?
And since you are so sure that only liberals can support legalization, tell me what you think of this well known liberal's take on it.
I didn't say only liberals supported legalization. I said some conservatives were deceived by liberal rhetoric. Mr. Buckley was one of them.
And Milton Friedman. Amazing isn’t it that the two people who intellectually led the modern conservative movement were so easily taken in by liberals? Or maybe they just saw the problems with marijuana prohibition for themselves.
The study compared two similar sized cities, it wouldn’t make sense for them to compare Amsterdam and Iowa Park, Texas. My point was use is less in a place with legalized marijuana than it is where it is illegal. Who knows what the reasons are, but clearly other things besides criminalization work.