With a bare majority of Americans supporting drug legalization, Jeremy Lott's recent article "Bongs for Bishops" is right in asserting that the Catholic Church should enter the drug debate sooner rather than later.
The thrust of his argument is that 1) the Obama administration is inevitably moving towards drug legalization, 2) the Church should consider legalization because marijuana is an exception to the Church’s teaching on drugs, and 3) there are significant problems surrounding drug prohibition that could be resolved, in part or in whole, through drug legalization.
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