I Call "Bullshit" On The New York Times

Is this headline balanced? "Killing Highlights Risks Of Selling Marijuana, Even Legally."

The article is about a medical marijuana provider from Colorado, Ken Gorman, who was murdered in his home. The article is fair to Mr. Gorman, portraying him as a somewhat controversial figure in the medicinal marijuana movement. And the article even hints at some of the problems with permitting the use of marijuana for medical use while continuing to forbid recreational use. However, not once does the article mention the inconvenient fact that legalized marijuana, for any and all uses, would have prevented this murder. So long as there remains a black market for marijuana, it's use, possession, and sale- even in a medical context- poses a risk.

This is the inconvenient truth of the medicinal marijuana movement, and the reason that our focus should be full legalization on the national level, and not the half-assed measures we've seen on the state level.