As police continue to brag about record pot busts, Scott Morgan thinks this is a victory for dealers, not law enforcement:
Let's just think critically for one second and consider how you'd feel if you were tasked with the responsibility of preventing marijuana cultivation, and you just kept discovering ever more mindblowingly enormous marijuana plantations every single year. … [Drug growers are able] overwhelm law-enforcement with an ever-intensifying cultivation campaign that promises to make them rich regardless of whatever percentage happens to get hauled off by the cops.
Elsewhere, Scott highlights a hopeful story out of Indiana, where Karen Tallian, a state senator and 60-year-old mother of three, was brave enough to sponsor a decriminalization bill against the urging of her colleagues:
In so many ways, all it takes to move this issue forward is a willingness to ignore the people who don't know how to have a serious conversation about marijuana. They will tell you that it's not important, even though it obviously is. They will tell you that no one cares, even though almost everyone does. And they will tell you that you'll make thousands of enemies, when new allies and friends are waiting around every corner to pledge their support and stand alongside any political leader wise enough to know that the time for change is at hand.
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