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Our War on Drugs is getting to seem more and more
futile,
especially since it has reached the point where marijuana is
America's most valuable cash crop, worth more to farmers
than wheat and corn combined, despite the fact that both of those
crops are heavily subsidized.
A new report draws this conclusion based on our
government's own calculations. Even the most conservative
estimates show that marijuana production has increased 10
times in the last 25 years, to the point where, for a quarter
of the US, it is the leading cash crop. It's one of the top 5
crops in almost 40 states. California is the state where a third
of it is grown. This is amazing, considering that the crop is
illegal everywhere and California, where most of it is grown,
borders on Mexico, where large smuggling operations regularly
transport large amounts of it across the border.
In the Independent, Andrew Gumbel quotes the report's
author, Jon Gettman, as saying, "Despite years of effort by
law enforcement, they're not getting rid of it. Not only is the
problem worse in terms of magnitude of cultivation, but
production has spread all around the country. To say the
genie is out of the bottle is a profound understatement."
Gumbel quotes Rob Kampia, of the Marijuana Policy Project,
as saying, "The fact that marijuana is America's number-one
cash crop after more than three decades of governmental
eradication efforts is the clearest illustration that our present
marijuana laws are a complete failure."
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