joining me now is andrew rosenthal, the editor of the editorial page of the "new york times". i'm pleased to have him here, welcome. >> thank you very much, good to be here. >> fell me how the board decided to do this. what was the process. >> i've been thinking about this for a long time. i have had this view since i was 17, you you know, seriously. and there is a couple of members of our staff, particularly a young woman who is my blog editor who has been pushing this for about a year. because she found our position to be sort of illogical. because we can-- what happened was all of these states were doing this, charlie. you had state after state after state that was legalizing it for medicinal purposes, either very broadly or very narrowly. some states just allow one pill, right. and then colorado comes along. and washington. and we suddenly found ourselves increasingly this year writing in a positive way about all these developments in the state its. a long time ago we had said medicinal is fine, the federal government should leave it alone. and then colorado comes along an

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