Legal Weed Didn’t Deliver on Its Promises

States still considering legalization—and those that may be reconsidering how legalization has worked out for them so far—would be wise to instead explore the ample middle ground, or what the late drug-policy expert Mark Kleiman called a ‘grudging toleration’ of legal use and supply. Even a society that otherwise embraces free-market capitalism should be open to middle paths for addiction-inducing intoxicants, which are not ordinary commodities.