Re: Aug. 23 Cannabist story.
According to your article, “Congress will likely renew protections next month for state medical marijuana laws — but pro-pot lawmakers and advocates are still watching nervously in case Attorney General Jeff Sessions launches a last-minute sabotage campaign.”
At a minimum, Congress should extend the Rohrabacher-Blumenauer language that provides some protection for our Colorado marijuana laws.
Ideally, marijuana should be legal across the country; 60 percent of the people want it legalized. Of course, the lobbying efforts against it would be huge. To name a few: Big Pharma, the recreational alcohol industry, the private prison industry and whatever industries that would be affected by the growing of industrial hemp.
Other countries have declared the war on drugs a failure. Making drugs illegal is what creates the black market and ensuing crime and violence. Wasn’t this lesson learned 100 years ago with alcohol?
DzҰ, Westminster
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