“What’s especially obnoxious about these conclusions is that they argue marijuana ‘damages lives’ but ignore the devastating effects of long-term incarceration on the individuals and families swept up for non-violent criminal violations into the West’s massive penal-industrial complex. There is plenty of evidence that prohibition doesn’t work and that the blight from those kinds of policies – as well as the individual and familial ruin – is considerably worse than the item being prohibited. Of course, the pharmaceutical companies that are doubtless supportive of ‘studies’ like this don’t care about the larger social costs.”
http://www.thedailybell.com/editorials/35376/Anthony-Wile-Reefer-Madness-Redux/
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