Marijuana goes Mainstream in Amaerica The casual use of marijuana is becoming increasingly accepted, or at least tolerated, in the United States. According to The San Francisco Chronicle, 100 million Americans have used weed, with 15 million smoking in the last month and two million more people trying it each year. According to The New York Times, citing Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron, Americans spend about $25 billion a year on weed. Medical marijuana has created what amounts to the legalization of weed in 14 states so far, including California. Fortune magazine calls it "the greening of America." [continues 700 words]
As the planning session broke up in elegant old Prince Hall downtown, the former gubernatorial candidate strode over and asked a visitor, "So, do you think we're batshit crazy?" All Loretta Nall and the Alabamians for Compassionate Care want to do is persuade our monumentally intractable legislature, on the cusp of an election year, to disregard 70 years of social taboos and a federal pharmaceutical jihad to ordain that the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes shall be legal throughout the state. [continues 947 words]
