The marijuana issue has galvanized activist energy on the left and the right, from anti-globalization protesters to free-market capitalists. On January 10, 1965, the beat poet Allen Ginsberg led a march for marijuana legalization outside the New York Women’s House of Detention in lower Manhattan. A dozen demonstrators waved placards and chanted slogans, resulting in … Continue reading Why the Fight to Legalize Marijuana Is Part of a Much Larger Populist Struggle