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The Revolution in Cannabis Law Has Begun, but Britain Is Stuck in the Past

Submitted by Marijuana News on Fri, 11/11/2016 - 08:45

From California to the Baltic, the dam is breaking. Meanwhile, the British government sticks to its ‘war on drugs’, and pays the heavy price.

How did the world change on 8 November 2016? No, it was not the election of Donald Trump. It was the passage of California’s proposition 64, removing legal controls on the production and sale of marijuana.

A quarter of Americans will now be able to buy cannabis legally, from California to Massachusetts, from Florida to Colorado. It is inconceivable that a Trump presidency will intervene in states’ rights and overrule them. The dam has broken. As with alcohol prohibition in the 1930s, the irresistible force of public demand has overwhelmed the immovable object of prejudice.

As these laws crumble across America, moves to tax marijuana will increase

The issue is not the harm marijuana does to its user – like nicotine and alcohol ...

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