Why is Marijuana Law Reform a Big Deal?
You may have wondered about this before. Why do organizations like ours work so hard for the establishment of a legal and regulated marijuana supply? What’s wrong with leaving marijuana prohibited, is there any harm caused by the prohibition at all? The problem with keeping marijuana prohibited stems from the prohibition’s inability to eliminate the demand for marijuana. While the prohibition has done a wonderful job at removing the legal supply of marijuana, it has proven to be completely incapable of removing, or even reducing, its demand. This creates major problems both for individuals and for our society as a whole. If the prohibition were able to eliminate demand for marijuana we’d probably all agree that there really wouldn’t be a problem. No demand, no supply, no drug dealers, cartels, kids getting high, murders, tortures or corruption. Marijuana might still be seen to be unfairly demonized by society but at least nobody would be getting hurt. But it can’t. The federal marijuan
