, a 43% increase over 2020, and is expected to hit $65 billion in 2030.
Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic Caucus chair, said there is a mass incarceration problem in the U.S, fueled by the “prison industrial complex” in America. He says former president Richard Nixon’s failed war on drugs disproportionately targeted Black and Latino Americans and noted that the fact that the U.S. imprisons more people per capita than China and Russia is a “stain.” Ending the federal government’s ban on pot would be a step in a positive direction.
Despite the fact that the vast majority of Americans are in favor of legal marijuana, there were plenty of nay-sayers in the House. Cliff Bentz, a Republican from Oregon, managed the bill’s opposition, said the MORE Act is a “bad and incomplete bill.” Representing southern Oregon, where illegal cannabis grows have become a pervasive problem rife with organized crime, says a better bill would fund the police to battle issues like the illicit market.
Is this the reason congressmen have been surreptitiously buying weed stock? Lining their pockets lol, couple months they'll cry about the debt ceiling we pay for
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