In July the Alliance made waves when executive director Ethan Nadelmann's cover story on marijuana legalization ran in National Review, America's leading conservative magazine (see the fully footnoted version here).

Nadelmann's article was well-received in conservative circles -- throwing drug czar John Walters into a tizzy.

This led National Review to do something truly remarkable: the magazine gave Walters a forum to air the Bush administration's views on marijuana while also allowing Nadelmann the opportunity to rebut Walters's erroneous claims. Since the drug czar shuns debates, this might be as close as we get -- for some time -- to a face-to-face discussion with the man who steers the U.S. government's harmful and out-of-control marijuana policies.

Here are the relevant National Review articles:

• Nadelmann's July cover story in National Review
• Nadelmann's July cover story in National Review - with footnotes included
• Drug Czar's response and Nadelmann's point-by-point rebuttal

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