May 20, 2013 1:19PM 

# Turning the Page: How to Legalize Marijuana? 

By [Tim Lynch](https://www.cato.org/people/tim-lynch) 

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An excerpt from an op-ed by Bill Keller in today’s [*New York Times*](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/20/opinion/keller-how-to-legalize-pot.html?ref=billkeller):

> The marijuana debate has entered a new stage. Today the most interesting and important question is no longer *whether* marijuana will be legalized–eventually, bit by bit, it will be–but *how*.

[Agreed](https://www.cato.org/research/drug-war). However, it would have been nice to hear a bit more on the horribly misguided prohibition policy that was supported by so many for so long and a more urgent plea to Obama and others in officialdom to end prohibition sooner, not later.

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