{"id":6687,"date":"2010-04-21T02:10:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T09:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2010\/04\/the-war-on-drugs-has-failed-so-tax-and-regulate-marijuana-cnbc\/"},"modified":"2010-04-21T02:10:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T09:10:33","slug":"the-war-on-drugs-has-failed-so-tax-and-regulate-marijuana-cnbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2010\/04\/the-war-on-drugs-has-failed-so-tax-and-regulate-marijuana-cnbc\/","title":{"rendered":"The War On Drugs Has Failed, So Tax And Regulate Marijuana &#8211; CNBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/upload\/2010\/04\/main_header2.jpg\" width=\"892\" height=\"133\" alt=\"main_header2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/36180871\">\n<p>Commentary &amp; Analysis<br \/>\n  Gary JohnsonGary E. Johnson<br \/>\n  Board member, Students for a Sensible Drug Policy<br \/>\n  Author, \u201cSeven Principles of Good Government\u201d<br \/>\n  Former Governor of New Mexico (R)<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time we tax and regulate marijuana. The War on Drugs is a proven failure. We have spent several decades and close to a trillion dollars trying to eliminate drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Consider these facts:<\/p>\n<p>* The last three Presidents and half of American adults have said they have smoked marijuana.<br \/>\n  * More children have tried marijuana, which is illegal, than cigarettes, which are regulated.<br \/>\n  * Last year we arrested 850,000 people for marijuana, mostly for possession.<br \/>\n  * So far, fourteen states have passed medical marijuana laws enabling sick people to benefit.<br \/>\n  * Massachusetts, Denver, and Seattle have either successfully decriminalized, or instituted lowest priority law enforcement policies for marijuana possession.<\/p>\n<p>We learned a valuable lesson with alcohol prohibition in this country. Prohibition created black markets and violence as gangs fought to control the market. The same thing is true today. Mexican cartels make the majority of their profits distributing marijuana in 230 American cities, and the resulting violence is tragic. That\u2019s why the presidents of many Latin American countries signed a declaration that the war on drugs needs to be ended.<\/p>\n<p>[From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/36180871\" ><cite>The War On Drugs Has Failed, So Tax And Regulate Marijuana &#8211; CNBC<\/cite><\/a>]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commentary &amp; Analysis Gary JohnsonGary E. Johnson Board member, Students for a Sensible Drug Policy Author, \u201cSeven Principles of Good Government\u201d Former Governor of New Mexico (R) It\u2019s time we tax and regulate marijuana. The War on Drugs is a proven failure. We have spent several decades and close to a trillion dollars trying to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2010\/04\/the-war-on-drugs-has-failed-so-tax-and-regulate-marijuana-cnbc\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The War On Drugs Has Failed, So Tax And Regulate Marijuana &#8211; CNBC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-1JR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}