For the best part of a century, American regulators have locked themselves into what many have recognised as an unwinnable war against a hardy plant that is cheap and easy to grow, with a wide variety of uses and end products. Despite a mountain of evidence within that time to indicate that prohibition and its ancillary policies just do not work, an obsession with marijuana has fed the rise of a draconian criminal justice framework designed to get weed off the streets and criminalise the entire supply chain of what is basically a naturally occurring plant. U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden
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