Cannabis Law

There are five states in America that have got ballot initiatives this November asking voters if they think marijuana should be decriminalised. More than half the states in America now have legalised marijuana in some form or another. It does seem to have very widespread popular support, so probably no coincidence that Joe Biden announced this just a few weeks before an election. Cannabis law was always political from the very beginning. A few years ago, it was President Nixon who first declared the war on drugs in America. And one of his aides admitted that one of the reasons they did it was to target their enemies. They said they couldn't make it illegal to be against the Vietnam War or to be black. So instead