Can Legal Cannabis Save the US Economy?
The harmful effects of prohibition have been understood by anyone who cares to pay attention. This has been abundantly clear since U.S. alcohol prohibition, way back in 1920 up until 1933.
The prohibition model largely benefits those in power, as it legitimizes their stranglehold over peaceful users of plants. We must protect the American people from the evil devil’s lettuce! From this wrongheaded mindset, of course, comes big drug enforcement budgets and vastly increased police forces focusing on victimless, harmless users. Many of these drug enforcement agents have unapologetically been paid large taxpayer funded salaries to put Americans in cages, spy on citizens and have huge negative impacts on millions of lives. Of course, all of this unchecked power and money is a lot better than actually serving clients and working real jobs on the free market.
Is it a huge surprise then, that it only took the U.S. federal...
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