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In The Week (May 22), your discussion of the medicinal benefits of marijuana ends with the rhetorical question: "If some suffering patients believe they can find comfort in smoking dope, and they don't interfere with anyone else, what legitimate interest does the state have in prosecuting them?" That leads to a second question: If some patients find comfort in smoking crack, sniffing coke, or shooting heroin, what legitimate interest does the state have in prosecuting them? If you can answer the second ...