In a story that appeared today regarding what the “The Great Montana Marijuana Mutiny” (as the Wall Street Times dubbed it), Missoula County District Judge Dusty Deschamps -- a former prosecutor -- made the case that marijuana is not remotely as problematic as marijuana.  In fact it's "a hundred times" less of a problem...

As the Helena Independent Record reports: 

In the 2010 poll, 58 percent of those in the western United States support legalization. The poll has a margin of error of 4 percentage points.

Count Deschamps among that 58 percent.

The judge and former Missoula County attorney said he’s “more or less” convinced that marijuana should be legalized in some form, despite being “much alarmed at what I consider to be rampant abuse of what I think was a well-intentioned initiative” — that being the 2004 statewide voter initiative that legalized medical marijuana in Montana. Deschamps also voted for that initiative.

We’ve seen some downside in the medical marijuana thing, but I’m reasonably convinced that, over the years, I haven’t seen very many criminals go out and commit horrible crimes under the influence of marijuana. Alcohol is 10 times the problem marijuana is, a hundred times.” (Emphasis added)