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Liberties Union from 1978 to 2001, told me. “Without marijuana, the use of drugs is negligible, and you can’t justify the law- enforcement and prison spending on the other drugs. Their use is vanishingly small. I always thought that if you could cut the marijuana head off the beast, the drug war couldn’t be sustained.” Read the whole piece here. http://jezebel.com/nixons-policy-advisor-admits-he- invented-war-on-drugs-t-1766359595 Fifty Years of Israeli Cannabis Research Funded By US Government Research Funded By US Government Cannabis Law Reformation is a topic on a lot of ballots and agendas these days. With all the research and testimonials about the numerous benefits of THC, CBD, Cannabis, and Hemp, it is hard not to wonder why this has not been on the hot plate sooner. It seems as if all this research on the benefits is just surfacing when the plant has been in use for centuries. The US has been reluctantly funding research on marijuana, cannabis, THC, and CBD in very limited areas over the past few decades. The research the government seems to want to fund locally is all based on the negative side effects of marijuana use, not the benefits. There are very few projected funded federally each year. Less than 300 people are said to participate.