Stephan:   I was at dinner the other night and spoke with a prominent physician who I think is considerably more conservative then me, and who feels marijuana is dangerous, although he was willing to concede that there was some indication that medical marijuana might do some good in certain limited cases. I asked him what he thought the impact of legalization in Washington had been? Had he seen anything that stood out for him negatively on the island? After a moment's thought he said, he hadn't seen any impact and thus didn't know how to answer. Nothing seemed to have changed. That has also been my experience. We have two recreational outlets, and two medical outlets. None seems to draw a crowd, I read nothing in the paper about them anymore, and haven't heard anyone talking about them recently. Like same-sex marriage the story is there is no story, in the sense of disaster or crisis. Readers in Colorado have written to tell me the same thing, and this report seems to confirm it in detail.  All the prohibitionist hysteria has turned out to be just that: hysteria. I suspect it will be the same in Oregon and Alaska. And by the next election that the entire Western United States will have legalized, and it will be clear that as with alcohol and dry states, prohibition is a bias, not a fact-based position.