RE: Cannabis Is Legal In The United States Now!

Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

What I strongly believe we need to do is simply repeal cannabis prohibition, and that's it.

I concur that "legalization isn't going far enough to help the people who actually suffered the most from the Government's war on drugs," and would like to add that "legalization" and "decriminalization" are actually just different forms of prohibition. Any form of prohibition is going to discriminate against any number of Americans, and is also primarily designed so the government can get money. They run law enforcement like a business. Not enough "crimes" being convicted equals no money for them from the private prison system. We don't need special tax structures on it for the government to get their cut. They'll get their cut with all the "new" jobs entering the workforce and paying income taxes for their revenue. We don't need to pay for a government-regulated market for it with our taxes, either. If people would like to have some sort of regulated market, that's great, and I'm sure we can figure that out without the government's help through the use of independent nonprofit organizations. Those who choose to trust their friend up the street for their medicine without going through hoops of regulation should have the right to do that as well.

There are so many reasons we should just repeal cannabis prohibition. I've been discussing these reasons for the last 2 decades, and I'll keep doing it forever, if necessary, but I'll keep it brief brief for now...