MARIJUANA AT CITY HALL

As a disclaimer, I do not smoke anything, nor drink alcohol, nor do any drugs. That said, I have a practical suggestion:

All of us must obtain medical marijuana prescription "licenses."

Why? 

Because there would be a huge societal benefit and the groundswell would disable the government idiotic "enforcement, cause the government to turn-tail, change and start using  OUR tax resources on things that are actually important.

The ridiculous federal classification of cannabis as a Schedule 1 'dangerous drug' is counterproductive, costly &; cruel. There are HUNDREDS of effective medicines and products made from that easy-to-grow plant. It's amazing. 

Medical? Anxiety, knees, back, sleeping, body-aches, cancer, pain relief, -- HUNDREDS of medicines, proven treatments. These wasteful laws force the FDA and universities/lab developers to even be hampered in testing medicines!

Paper, cloth, building/insulation, rope, string, packaging, food processing, farming, ranching, gardening, painting, industrial products...just HUNDREDS of uses for an easy-to-grow crop.

Instead of exploring, developing & using this fantastic resource.... our government keeps it classified as illegal - on par with heroin! Good God. States that legalize it experience higher tax revenues, lower law enforcement costs, less violence that's usually fueled with alcohol, lower alcohol related arrests, hospitalizations & deaths, far fewer DUI injuries/deaths, fewer overdoses, less opioid use, less drug addiction--all in significant, proven, measurable proportions.

Even the legal medical trade is endlessly hampered by technical federal illegally, and hassled by federal banking & farming, transport/manufacture laws.

If we ALL go get medical marijuana"licenses", we would overload the system, force eventual complete legality , as well as facilitate research &; marketability of all these great products.

You can't fight city hall alone, but you can, as a large enough group, make city hall do what you want. It's time to stop this foolishness if DEA and federal law enforcement, over marijuana. It's ridiculous, expensive, counterproductive.