Who Benefits From Cannabis Prohibition?
Prohibition The ban on cannabis was supposed to protect society from the threats of murder, mayhem, addiction, and full-scale collapse that were trumpeted by everyone from politicians to Parent Teacher Associations. Nearly a century later, its illegality has caused the very problems it was intended to solve. So who benefits from cannabis prohibition really?
People opposed to cannabis would tend to give “drug dealers” as their first answer to this question. Their idea of such is generally a scary, shadowy, street-lit figure, a silhouette with the de rigueur hoody and cap offering the first fix for free in order to snare more unsuspecting victims in a web of horror. For people who are better informed and less susceptible to propaganda, it takes a moment to remember that ‘drug dealer’ can be used to refer to the easy-going gardener who ‘sorts them out’, the person dressed as a mermaid drifting around the...
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