Morning Matters

• The Economist says it’s time to legalize drugs: “Legalisation would not drive gangsters completely out of drugs; as with alcohol and cigarettes, there would be taxes to avoid and rules to subvert. Nor would it automatically cure failed states like Afghanistan. Our solution is a messy one; but a century of manifest failure argues for trying it.”
• Glenn Greenwald revisits the anthrax attacks. I think he’s right. There are two many unanswered questions in all of this. A new investigation from outside the FBI seems in order.

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