Marijuana is the largest cash crop in the United States at an estimated $35.8 billion a year. Pot brings in so much money that it actually surpasses grapes in California, cotton in Alabama, and tobacco in the Carolinas. It nationally earns more than corn and wheat combined. With the exception of the fourteen states and the District of Columbia where it is legalized for prescribed medical use only, this drug is illegal. However, this could change for the state of California this November 2. The new law; called The Regulate, Control, and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010; would authorize local governments to regulate and tax the commercial cultivation of the plant. This could be seen as a public problem because it is unknown what kinds of problems this legalization could cause, depending on who is able to get his hands on it.
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Kilee Imlay
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The legalization of marijuana in the State of California has been talked about for years, and their progressive state has been on the forefront of the drugs medicinal uses for even longer. But the fact remains that this will never be a simple issue in the United States because of the fact that many of governmental officials have grown up with the belief and continue to think that marijuana is a dangerous and harmful drug. But the truth of the matter in the legalization process is that first it must be decriminalized. The talks about the drug are always based on the potential for huge governmental profit, through its sale and regulation, while the issue of money lost on the imprisonment of even first time marijuana offenders goes relatively unnoticed. The government spends massive amount of money housing prisoners with marijuana offenses, when in most cases the people are not harden criminals. This issue will continue to be prevalent in the U.S., and no matter what ends up happening, one side will feel they have been wronged.
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