The president should be using his bully pulpit to lead public opinion to even further support cannabis decriminalization and, eventually, forge a bipartisan path to doing just that.
The United States’ prohibition of marijuana has been a failure on many fronts. Its enforcement has upended countless lives by locking people up for possessing the drug. Its criminalization has disproportionately harmed Black Americans, who are nearly four times more likely than white people to be arrested for marijuana-related offenses despite similar usage rates. And it has contributed to a lucrative black market that has significantly boosted the revenues of drug cartels.
– Read the entire article at Boston Globe.
