7-24 IAT M4ML

 The Atlanta-based Movement for Marijuana Legalization, or, M4ML officially launched its legalization campaign in Atlanta.  M4ML begins a fact-based discussion about marijuana policy reform and regulation tailored for the South.

 M4ML was founded by a group of native Atlantans that understand the economic and social benefits created by marijuana regulation and believe that Atlanta, and ultimately the entire U.S., will benefit from this inexpensive and renewable natural resource.Executive Director D. Macris says he took up this cause because he was tired of seeing tax dollars being wasted on an unwinnable war against a plant. “The marijuana plant is a plant.  It just sits in the dirt, sunbathes and drinks water like a plant.  It isn’t hatching an insidious plot to destroy America.  It doesn’t even have a brain.  And we, as a society, spend billions of dollars per year fighting against this plant that doesn’t know it’s in a war or fight back; and it’s still winning.   Then when you factor in that this plant can be regulated and taxed like alcohol to generate massive revenues, its prohibition is even more baffling.  Why aren’t we taking advantage of this natural resource?  The Federal Government says that the goal of marijuana prohibition is to protect our youth, but I don’t agree that arresting kids is protecting them.  I’m surprised the DEA hasn’t raided Camp Crystal Lake and caught Jason [Voorhees] to protect teenagers because he killed more kids in the 1980s than marijuana ever will.  The war against marijuana is a waste of money and an abject failure and I don’t want my tax dollars wasted on it.  I think the money would better serve America’s struggling education or healthcare systems.”