The marijuana-legalization movement gained a new friend in a high place Thursday when retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens said the federal government should allow American adults to possess pot. Stevens told NPR, “Recognize that the distinction between marijuana and alcoholic beverages is really not much of a distinction.” In Colorado, pot industry leader Michael Elliott agreed Thursday with Stevens’ notion that a decades-long fight by national, state and local law enforcement agencies against the sale and use of marijuana has done more damage than good.