Posts Tagged ‘legalization of marijuana’

We conveniently forget that people want marijuana not for their pleasure, but to eliminate pain and improve the quality of their life.

In the Emerald Triangle, marijuana is increasingly filling the gap left by other failing industries like lumber and fishing; with the crash of the economy, it’s little wonder that the government seem to be having a major rethink about cannabis prohibition.

It might just be time for the state of California to write another chapter in the marijuana history books by voting to legalize its recreational use for adults.

If marijuana was legalized, excess profits caused by the risk-premium taken by illegal grow operations would be transferred to the government – along with much needed tax revenue.

Recently there has been some terrific news, it is now legal to smoke medical marijuana in New Jersey, you can now smoke legal medical marijuana in 14 states. I am sure more and more US states will follow as it is high time that the government helps its citizens who are in medical need.
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With current marijuana laws remaining largely unenforced have we gone back in time to the corruption and racketeering of the 1930’s?

With four separate pro-marijuana-legalization ballot papers currently circulating in California we ask if marijuana is already effectively legal.