With P.L. 91-513, 84 Stat. 1242 (Controlled Substances Act), it has overly criminalized, rather intensely, for the possession of marijuana in the United States of America; hitherto, the effects of such criminalization has increased the incarceration rates of U.S. Citizens for merely possessing such a substance. As a result, this would evidently harm traditional and non-traditional families in regards to a lack of proper criminal defense, individual's employment prospects of which convicted Citizens face scrutinizing judgement, and lastly playing a factor by halting economic growth with costly measures in maintaining correctional facilities. It is time for that audacity of hope that you've written about, Mr. President, striving for Justice in this Land of Opportunity to sustain the Dream.
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