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Prohibition is a Big Government Program
TODAY’S CANNABIS BUSINESS PLAN
YESTERDAY’S MARIJUANA CONSPIRACY
Decriminalizing
marijuana is an act that has support on both sides of the political
spectrum.
Two Executive Actions that can save up to $42 Billion a year
that could be spent on infrastructure and prevent over 500,000 arrests annually
I.
Executive Actions
A. Group or Category Clemency – Amnesty for
all nonviolent
federal
marijuana inmates who have served 5 years for
a
marijuana only offense
1. Model this initiative on Gerald
Ford’s Clemency
initiative for those who
initiative for those who
violated the Selective Service Act
2. Grant commutations by creating a
board within the White
House modeled on Gerald Ford’s clemency of selective
service violators.
House modeled on Gerald Ford’s clemency of selective
service violators.
B. Remove marijuana from the Controlled
Substance Act’s
schedule and regulate it like alcohol
II.
Desired Objective
A. De scheduling marijuana may save up to
$42 Billion
dollars a year in enforcement, prosecution and
incarceration
B. Make billions of dollars available
annually for infrastructure
III.
Rational
A. Over 29 states and the District of
Columbia have
legalized cannabis to some degree
B. Over 70% if the population believes
that marijuana should
not be criminalized
not be criminalized
C. This is an item that has bi-partisan
support
IV.
The cannabis business is growing exponentially.
Like all
successful business enterprises it is
based on the knowledge
and experience of past entrepreneurs
V. It has become increasingly incongruous to
have Cannabis
business plans being implemented for a product
that has
given others a sentence of life without
parole
VI.
Challenges to overcome – Those who are financially
dependent on maintaining
dependent on maintaining
this administrative designation of
marijuana
A. Public Employees Unions for law
enforcement, correction
officers, etc.
officers, etc.
B. Businesses with vendor contracts for
prisons and law
enforcement
enforcement
C. Pharmaceutical companies
D. Lobbyists for businesses and
non-profits with government
contracts for
contracts for
re-entry and recovery
E. Lobbyists for alcohol and spirits
Regulating marijuana like alcohol will
save up to
$ 42 billion that can be used to
rebuild our aging infrastructure and prevent over 550,000 arrests annually.
Today’s Cannabis Business Plan
Yesterday’s Marijuana Conspiracy
The War on Drugs is a Big Government
Program
