President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that committed the Justice Department to“rescheduling”marijuana. Although the order won’t legalize pot, it will relax a series of restrictions that the federal government has long enforced. The move has a broad coalition of supporters, including many progressives, who say that it will enable medical research and alleviate mass incarceration.
But in reality, rescheduling marijauna will do little more than hand a tax break to the corporations that spent millions of dollars lobbying for it.Trump’s executive order does little more than offer a tax cut to an industry that profits from addiction.
Such a move would clearly defy the current science on marijuana. Contrary to conventional wisdom, pot—especially today’s highly potent product—is both addictive and harmful. Figures vary, but the CDC estimates that about 30 percent of users become addicted.
I can’t imagine how many addicts there will be in our country in the future!
