More and more we are seeing a looser grip on Marijuana laws, mostly because the war on drugs is failing. Without regulation, it is being sold to kids on school playgrounds and on the streets, and billions are spent every year to house prisoners who are only guilty of smoking a joint. We could turn this around by legalizing marijuana and taxing it. Instead of there being billions going out to prisons, we could have billions coming in from sales. Instead of drug dealers selling to kids, we could take their business from them and sell to adults, legally from a pharmacy or other means. You don’t see people selling booze to kids as a means of making income, it’s always about being the ‘buddy’, and you can’t do anything about that, there will always be losers who need to feel important. Marijuana has never killed anybody, but we have all heard of alcohol poisoning. Here’s a video of Bill Maher at a NORML convention…

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