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420 with CNW — Cannabis Prohibition Costs $53 Billion Annually in the US

When it was first initiated, the war on drugs had relatively noble goals: to eliminate the production, distribution, and consumption of psychoactive drugs, consequently reducing the number of people addicted to these drugs and stripping the criminal enterprises behind the drug trade of their resources. However, decades after former President Nixon declared the infamous war on drugs, the drug war is considered an unmitigated failure by most. Not only has it failed to curb drug use in the country and barely put a dent in the illicit drug trade, but it also has sent countless millions to prison for relatively tame offenses such as drug possession and cost the United States billions of dollars.

According to a report published on AmericanMarijuana.org, the United States loses a whopping $53 billion every year to cannabis prohibition. Most of this money goes towards cannabis arrests, prosecutions, and incarceration, with most of these individuals having done nothing more than possess small amounts of cannabis. As the country’s economy tries to shrug off the catastrophic effects of the coronavirus pandemic…

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