Source: FiveThirtyEight
Marijuana Laws by State
August 6, 2015 12:30pm by Barry Ritholtz
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Legalize it. Tax it. Regulate it.
Republicans, make up how weed is the cause of global warming. Then you can have your hero, The Donald, and his first and third immigrant wife lead you to the promised land of Tea Party purity.
“Legalize it. Tax it. Regulate it.”
No we have to waste more money and lives and disqualify poor and brown people from voting.
It frequently takes 60+ years (400+ in the case of race) for our irrational fears to dissipate. Awful policies with regard to Iran, marijuana, Vietnam, gay marriage, etc.
As a Colorado resident, I hope that someday every American citizen of legal age who so desires can enjoy the experience of walking into a dispensary, smelling the lovely aromas, savoring the varieties, and just revel in the absence of paranoia that comes with doing something profoundly normal (NORML).
1) It occurs to me that recreation is beneficial to health. “Recreational” hemp is also “medicinal.”
2) We’re going to need something like a “Truth and Reconciliation” commission as hemp cultivation becomes legal again, as it was for Tom Jefferson and George Washington. I propose a “Commission for Cannabis as in Colorado.” This CCC could help law enforcement DEA-types get more productive government work the way Roosevelt’s CCC did for the general public.
Always funny to me that the dumb states, that regularly pass anti-Sharia resolutions adopt many of the exact same policies as those regimes they supposedly despise – draconian anti-gay, anti-drug, anti-woman penalties, for instance.