Letter: Help Farmers by Legalizing Marijuana

[PFlynn]

Regarding Treasure Coast tree farmers struggling: How about legalizing the manufacture, production and sales of the cannabis plant, which is already a multi-million-dollar Florida product?

The state could develop policies that put the management of the market in the hands of law-abiding adults and which allow society to assume some of the responsibility for a business whose regulation has been abdicated to the criminal justice system.

Let our agriculture industry get the profits for manufacturing the plant to meet the existing market in marijuana for pharmacopoeia and fun. This existing market would provide the resources needed to develop a hemp industry for food, fuel and fiber. We are the only industrialized nation not growing hemp. It is another potentially multi-million-dollar agriculture market that is totally untapped in the United States.


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Source: TCPalm.com
Author: Ethel Rowland (Letter to the Editor)
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