RAND studies benefits of legalizing pot

Californians will be smoking a lot more pot - and paying a lot less for it - if a ballot measure legalizing recreational use of marijuana passes in November. C..J. Lin in the Daily News.

But other predictions about the effects of legalizing the drug are a lot more hazy, according to a study released Wednesday by Rand Corp.'s Drug Policy Research Center.

"No government has legalized the production and distribution of marijuana for general use," said Beau Kilmer, a Rand researcher and lead author of the report titled "Altered State?"