Here’s an older one on the reduced opioid use https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/access-to-medical-marijuana-reduces-opioid-prescriptions-2018050914509
A few main positives off the top of my head for marijuana legalization that won’t require studies.
- New tax revenue streams
- Job creation from construction to research
- Less people being arrested means lower law enforcement and legal system costs. Also court times are reduced when not clogged with bullshit marijuana charges.
- Fewer cannabis related charges means less children in the hands of CAS (Children’s Aid) and foster care for parents consuming and growing their own medicine.
- End of failed drug wars
Three main groups pushing anti cannabis propaganda that don’t want legalized marijuana are Big Pharma, Law Enforcement, and your corrupt government.
Big Pharma doesn’t want to compete against a drug that works as intended without horrible side effects and that can’t be controlled by them. They control the drug pushers aka Doctors who don’t care about people either, they care about big kickbacks and trips to conferences in sunny destinations that they receive from Big Pharma for pushing poison.
Law Enforcement loves to lock up non violent offenders and fill up the jails for their buddies to make profit. They push for decriminalization over legalization so they can profit from the tickets which helps their quota system while still helping to fill jails and prisons with minimum mandatory sentences for production and distribution of cannabis.
Fun facts a kid selling pot at a mall here in Canada had about 90 grams on him got popped and his punishment 14 years minimum mandatory sentence. The last figures I read for Ontario province prison costs was $110,000 a year that’s $1.5 million dollars for a guy selling $900 dollars worth of pot. Fine the guy $1000 bucks and move on FFS.
This all comes from a government that hated minimum mandatory sentences when the Conservatives pushed their omnibus crime bill but once the Liberal government got in power they didn’t change those laws they just changed their minds and upped the min. sentences when they created their new marijuana laws.
My corrupted government didn’t want legalized marijuana because their rich friends paided alot to be the current Legal Producers or LPs (ex politicians that pushed for harsh laws against weed and poor little rich kids playing with daddies money) wouldn’t be in a position to dominate the market when in direct competition with actual growers. So the Government gave the entire industry to thier friends which Canada is famous for, now the LPs cry the blues that they can’t compete with the quality and prices of the black markets. I’m sure this will result in a greater crack down on blackmarket fows from Trudeau the Taint washer.
Canada’s “legal” marijuana is garbage and a health hazard, smoke at your own risk.