Over the past 70+ years, the federal criminalization of marijuana has failed to reduce the public's demand or access to cannabis, it has imposed enormous fiscal and human costs upon the American people. Since
1970, police have arrested over 20 million American citizens for marijuana offenses-nearly 90% of which were prosecuted for the personal possession of marijuana, not marijuana trafficking or sale. Yet today federal surveys indicate that the public, including America's young
people, have greater access to marijuana-including stronger varieties of marijuana. It is time to stop ceding control of the marijuana market to unregulated, criminal entrepreneurs and allow states to enact common sense regulations that seek to govern the adult use of marijuauana in a fasion similar to alcohol.
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