Marijuana Prohibition Is Unscientific, Unconstitutional And Unjust

[RandallBurns]

4. Historical Origination of Cannabis Prohibition

i would look into the role the WCTU played in banning prohibition of Cannabis. The problems with national prohibition of alcohol are now widely accepted.

What is less widely understood are how bad the policies of criminalization of drugs and prostitution that originated from the same source have been.

My personal view is that Cannabis is a strong medication that needs to be used carefully. There is a scientific debate going on around how Cannabis affects motivation and cognition in teenage Cannabis users. Those effects do not seem to exist among older users, and the use of Cannabis to prevent Alzheimers and obesity needs more serious investigation.

I voted for legalization here in Washington. Private businesses here can still legally request clean drug tests from employees as can certain categories of landlords.i would suggest that is a better form of regulation than criminalization. I would personally favor warning labels for cannabis like we have on tobacco products. I would accept drug testing requirements for cannabis for auto insurance as long as alcohol use was also tested for (tests of average consumption of alcohol over a 3 month period now exist) and there were regulation that ment rates reflected the costs to the insurance company from specific classes of users.