From the "duh!" file: two members of congress are (finally) calling for the end of cannabis prohibition. From ABC/Yahoo! News:
Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) and Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) say marijuana legalization is a common sense fiscal policy that could save the government billions of dollars through a combination of tax revenues and savings from not pursuing costly enforcement and incarceration.
“We are trying to rationalize federal drug policy,” Blumenauer tells Top Line. “We're spending too much money on enforcement for something most Americans think should be legal, and we're losing revenue. And we're going to create federal train wreck if we don't fix it.”
Someone needs to punch the headline author and whoever put the phrase "trippy idea" into the story; but this is newsworthy.