The core is decriminalization of possession and cultivation of small amounts for personal use. Many of us would be willing to continue the ban on large- scale commercial production and distribution.

It is a measure of how Draconian the drug war has become that this latter position is approximately how the Volstead Act regulated alcohol. What the 20's called prohibition we call reform or even legalization; what we call prohibition -- the Drug War in its current form - - would have been unimaginable even to the most zealous Prohibitionists of the time.