Regulate Marijuana Like Wine

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The debate over the prohibition of marijuana has been ongoing for years, but with 16 states and D.C. now declaring medicinal marijuana legal, the tides are turning. Recently, California has put into action a new act titled The Regulate Marijuana Like Wine Act of 2012 to be voted on in the next election season. Marijuana reform has become such a wide debate for many reasons, including personal freedoms, medicinal benefits, and states’ rights. The federal government has had possession of cannabis outlawed since 1937 after every state had made the same decision, so across the land marijuana was illegal. Since then there has been a war on drugs which has mainly focused on cannabis, this is where the main conflict of states’ rights and federal law has come from. The main positions of the legalization of marijuana are for or against; it barely varies between recreational use and medicinal use against complete outlaw of it. The main reason people are against the legalization of marijuana is because the issue doesn’t affect them one way or the other so often there aren’t compromises. Within those who are for legalization, it varies more widely, some are for full legalization where adults may use marijuana at their own whim, to legalization and regulation similar to wine regulations, to legalization for strictly medicinal use. For my purposes we will only be discussing regulation of marijuana like wine, as the act proposes.

The two articles about this specific issue are from Cannabis Culture: Marijuana Magazine and Newsreview.com. The former, Battle of the Marijuana Bills: Why 'Regulate' is Better Than 'Repeal', discusses the Californian act as opposed to another similar act, The Repeal Cannabis Prohibition Act of 2012(RCP), and the diffe...

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