Legalize Marijuana. It's a great way to introduce new jobs to the unemployed (hemp products are excellent replacements for the crap coming from overseas) it will all but cripple the drug trade in the US (anybody can throw a few seeds in the ground and grow some) it will replenish the $9-$12 BILLION dollars annually the US spends on prisons, pot sniffing dogs, misinformation tools, court and police costs. It is not only less harmful that aspirin (ANNUAL AMERICAN DEATHS CAUSED BY DRUGS
TOBACCO —> 400,000, ALCOHOL—> 100,000, ALL LEGAL DRUGS—>20,000 ALL ILLEGAL DRUGS —>15,000, CAFFEINE—>2,000, ASPIRIN —>500
Marijuana….0 (zero) ) but it also aids in breaking the dependency on other drugs, the idea of it being more cancerous than cigarettes is ludicrous, as most cigarette smokers smoke 1.5-2 packs of cigarettes a day (or, i.5 ounces of tobacco)
while an individual need only smoke 3/4 of one gram for a nice high.
One man made it illegal because he felt it made black and hispanic people think they were as good as white people.
It's past time to be done with the nonsensical law governing something that grows free range.