North Carolina Panel Urges Cannabis Legalization

The North Carolina Task Force for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice has urged the state to legalize cannabis in order to achieve racial justice.

Marijuana legalization has been occurring at a lightspeed rate in this past month, during which Madison in Wisconsin, Argentina, and five states in the U.S. have legalized cannabis in some form, with Israel and Mexico preparing to do the same in the near future.

This is hugely beneficial from several perspectives, beginning with the libertarian perspective, which is that marijuana users will no longer be criminalized for what they choose to consume. Then there’s the medical perspective, in which those suffering from ailments such as anxiety and insomnia will be able to access less-addictive, cannabis-based medicines, in addition to those who suffer from ailments such as epilepsy and Parkinson’s, whose conditions can be greatly improved through medical cannabis use.

Lastly, are the economic benefits, most recently exemplified in Illinois, who recently surpassed half a billion dollars worth of cannabis sales since the state legalized cannabis in January this year.

However, as we’ve covered previously, the War on Drugs was initiated through a largely…