So this November the American state of Washington will have a referendum on whether or not to legalise marijuana. Initiative 502 will make it legal for Adults to carry small quantities of marijuana and will regulate the production and sale of the drug in a similar way that hard liquor is regulated.
As a Libertarian, I believe the government has no right to tell me whether or not I can smoke weed. Yet legalisation is about more than stoners’ rights: legalising and regulating the marijuana market would take profits away from violent drug cartels while providing a massive windfall for government coffers. Deficit? Bye Bye.
Hopefully this initiative will make it succeed in Washington state, and hopefully the UK will follow the likes of Holland in taking this progressive step.
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