A group, New Approach Washington, has field a marijuana legalization initiative in Washington, and the Times has endorsed their effort. It is a more moderate measure than the one on the streets collecting signatures for the past few months, Initiative 1149. That one is simple and radical: it erases all state law about marijuana for adults over 18. The rationale for the radical one is that by creating no new law, it gives the federal government nothing to attack in court. It is makes the state say to the feds, “If you want marijuana to be illegal, fine; you enforce it. We’re not going to help.”

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