What's wrong with America? Marijuana prohibition.
The US squanders billions of dollars each year to arrest and incarcerate Americans for marijuana offenses, and then the US imports millions of dollars of hemp fibers from China.
The war on drugs is a forty-year-old, trillion-dollar-plus failure that was started by Richard Nixon after his special committee advised that marijuana should be legalized, and every President since then has escalated the drug war, especially under Democrats who have to do something so the salivating right-wing doesn't scream about how they're "soft on crime".
Marijuana isn't supposed to be a crime. It's a plant. It's a very useful plant that can make everything from t-shirts to computers to plastic cups to UAV drones. "....and God saw that it was good."
Legalize this plant again, America, and you will see a spiderweb effect on the global economy that benefits the world's working poor.
The US squanders billions of dollars each year to arrest and incarcerate Americans for marijuana offenses, and then the US imports millions of dollars of hemp fibers from China.
The war on drugs is a forty-year-old, trillion-dollar-plus failure that was started by Richard Nixon after his special committee advised that marijuana should be legalized, and every President since then has escalated the drug war, especially under Democrats who have to do something so the salivating right-wing doesn't scream about how they're "soft on crime".
Marijuana isn't supposed to be a crime. It's a plant. It's a very useful plant that can make everything from t-shirts to computers to plastic cups to UAV drones. "....and God saw that it was good."
Legalize this plant again, America, and you will see a spiderweb effect on the global economy that benefits the world's working poor.