Maine Voices: Legal marijuana is Maine's future crop
Sam Eakin of Portland makes the case for taxing marijuana, and reaping millions in revenue, rather than the wasteful and failed efforts criminalize marijuana users that cost us billions every year.
Excerpt: "Sadly, we no longer have resources to squander by jailing cannabis users, even if it were smart to do so, which it isn't. We've already capsized Mexico due to our inability to regulate this market, and the sooner we deal with it the better -- and not through law enforcement agencies or public policy, because it doesn't work. It can't work. Policemen were never meant to regulate an economic market that has morphed into a staple product for an estimated 10 percent of all Americans."
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