Bob Orleck: The time is still not right for marijuana legalization

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Bob Orleck, who is a retired pharmacist and lawyer. Her served as an assistant attorney general under Vermont Attorney General M. Jerome Diamond. He was also a prosecutor on Maui in the late 1960s and early 1970s prosecuting cases, many of which were drug related.
The vote Jan. 4 legalizing marijuana makes one wonder what moves the actions and votes of politicians. If this vote was based on science, the result would have been different. Was it the will