Scientific American: Legalizing Marijuana Would Help the Environment

[RainDog]

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=would-legalizing-pot-be-good-for-environment

It is well known that legalizing pot could have great economic benefits in California and elsewhere by allowing the government to tax it (like it now does on liquor and cigarettes), by ending expensive and ongoing operations to eradicate it, and by keeping millions of otherwise innocent and non-violent marijuana offenders out of already overburdened federal and state prisons. But what you might not know is that legalizing pot could also pay environmental dividends as well.

It doesn't seem like there is any reputable organization that is connected to the scientific community that thinks it's a good idea to continue the drug war or to continue to deny the medical benefits of cannabis. The peer-reviewed scientific papers on cannabis acknowledge it is incontrovertible that cannabis has positive uses for people with MS and other afflictions -

It seems to me that those who make money by persecuting others in this failed drug war are hurting us all.