Oregon Could Have Cannabis Industry Prosperity

So we've got both RADE and MADGE? What a huge waste of taxpayer dollars on enforcing an illegal and unjust Prohibition, one more costly and a colossal failure than alcohol prohibition. You cannot regulate morality whether it's alcohol or cannabis, people want it and someone else will supply it. Our choice is to prosecute non-violent citizens who aren't hurting anyone else at a cost of millions of dollars per year in a recession no less, or to control and regulate cannabis like alcohol.

The latter would not only allow the millions of dollars spent on enforcement to be used for the many other things we need it for, but would also GENERATE millions of dollars in taxes and revenue, creating thousands of real, non-temp jobs for Oregon workers in the process. When we have 12.5% "official" unemployment, higher than the already high national average, we need to get serious about continuing this absolute failure of cannabis prohibition.

Information sources widely available on the internet, and other resources like Cannabis TV, channel 15 Wednedsays at 8pm, are helping educate people and dispell the propaganda and lies that have been fed to us by the DEA and other groups like the DARE program who tell us cannabis is deadly, addictive and a gateway to stronger drugs, all of which are scientifically and medically completely false. Get active in cannabis law reform if you don't want to worry about being "outed" for choosing a substance safer than tobacco, alcohol and caffeine.

You shouldn't have to live in fear of losing your kids to CPS or being fired, evicted, losing student loans, or any of the other forms of discrimination cannabis users face. The Cannabis Tax Act of 2012 can give Oregon a new industry, revenue stream, and show that we're open to individual rights and freedom, while simultaneously bringing us new prosperity in a dismal economy.

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