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Patient advocates celebrated the signing of two bills to improve Hawaii’s 13-year-old medical marijuana program – the first updates to pass the legislature since the program began. Approved Tuesday were measures to move …
Enough of these half-way measures. If we can’t control the use of marijuana and other psychotrophic drugs, why not legalize and tax the stuff like the government does with alcohol? Prohibition was a failure and helped create a criminal empire in illegal booze for criminal syndicates in the 1930s. If the plant were legalized, the government could establish purity standards like those found in alcoholic drinks and tax the smokes like the feds do with tobacco. Impose a "sin" tax and be done with it. We worry about marijuana and can’t even feed ourselves. Aloha, Russ.
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