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Marijuana Prohibition is a
Catastrophe:
The Solution is Legal
Regulation and Control
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What Does Regulation Mean? Support for Regulation is Surging
Legal regulation is not a step into the unknown – we Lawmakers in numerous states have introduced bills to
have centuries of experience in legally regulating fix backwards marijuana policies, and there is more
thousands of different drugs. Legal regulation means public support for reform than ever before. With new
commonsense controls – marijuana wouldn’t be polls showing nearly half the country in favor of taxing
treated like Coca-Cola, available to anyone of any age, and regulating marijuana, there is currently an
anywhere, at any time. Under many regulatory unprecedented opportunity to push for change.
proposals, it would be taxed and regulated in a manner
similar to alcoholic beverages.
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