We need to legalize marijuana and begin regulating and taxing it. Here is a piece covering a press conference yesterday morning on the step of the State House in Boston in support of legalizing marijuana. Marijuana is far from safe–whether someone is underage with a still-developing brain or a mature adult who still needs to drive home–but legalizing it is far overdue. Do we really want to continue to jail users or have kids see the police as the enemy?