Patrick Heintz: Vote Yes On Massachusetts Question 4

Our punitive approach to marijuana has demonstrably harmful impacts on public safety, child welfare, tax revenues, health, education and housing equity, community revitalization, and police-community relations. There is reassuring precedent to support the common sense notion that marijuana can be successfully regulated provided we remove it from the grip of gangs and cartels and put it in the control of the regulatory system, with all of its fixable imperfections.

While alcohol is seductive and has great potential to negatively impact public…