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It is a waste of storage space, paper, ink, and all around human effort to continue policing cannabis and <b>to keep criminal records detailing the peaceful activity</b> that humans engage in involving cannabis, such as cannabis possession and cannabis trafficking which are arguably victimless crimes. 

The approach to go after cannabis might be what has been preferred with the majority, over a substantial amount of time, but <b>humans have the free will to learn from their mistakes, educate themselves on the myths surrounding cannabis and eventually we can choose to wise up</b>. To be more thoughtful with the resources available to us. 

Dedicating those resources to policing cannabis is a fruitless endeavor that will [never accomplish the goal that](https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/four-decades-counting-continued-failure-war-drugs) it sets out to *supposedly* accomplish. 

Prohibition still decades later fails to prevent drug use or exchanges involving those prohibited substances, but it has been tremendously successful in demonizing people who should be considered patients. In restricting research and preventing access for those who need medical attention rather than jail and more difficulty in their life to deal with. Force and coercion does nothing to prevent drug addiction.  

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The more that those rules surrounding this plant can be reduced, via decriminalization or with a simple disregard for the activity altogether, even though it might be going on, the better off it is for the community as a whole. 

Drug war activity especially via prohibition, fuels tremendous violence, mostly for innocent bystanders. It is violence that does not need to be engaged in because people have a choice. Authorities have a choice on what they are going to prioritize their time with and they do not need to go busting into people's homes in the middle of the night over controversial yet arguably peaceful substances and activities. This has resulted in the harm and deaths of innocent people, that activity is therefore a threat to the community. 

Even if engaging in the policing of a certain substance might be more financially beneficial for them, that shouldn't be the only motivating factor. Liberty is more important than the money they are reaping from prohibition. The drug war has come at great cost in dramatically reducing human freedom and the ability of individuals to access what could arguably be considered to be a viable medication for many. 

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# Getting Rid Of Cannabis Records
<center></center>As cannabis markets continue to grow, in various places authorities have thrown a bone to the victims of their past mistakes, in moving to expunge criminal records for those who suffered arrest over their cannabis activities. 

We have seen them promise to erase public records for cannabis cases in Illinois, California, New York, and throughout the Caribbean as well such as in Trinidad and Tobago, and St. Kitts. 

In St. Kitts at least [800 people are soon going](https://zizonline.com/more-than-800-persons-to-have-their-criminal-records-for-small-amounts-of-marijuana-expunged/?utm_content=bufferf6327&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer&fbclid=IwAR1lUWtyuIoohLnAktIqxcOeS44_vmhw0pQI0UOPsgVoVuabo5UKWCEx9R0) to have their criminal records expunged if they had obtained those records over possession charges for small amounts of cannabis. 

A growing number of regions in the Caribbean are looking to make changes to their cannabis rules, apparently looking to establish their own new cannabis industries. And this is the case we see around the world, several countries have adjusted their anti-cannabis stances and we can expect that perhaps the list might grow. But the anti-cannabis myths continue to be spread far and wide and there is plenty of resistance still from millions around the world, the stigma is glaringly present. 

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Prohibition alterations in recent years, with the too good to be true legal market, might have brought us to assume that the war on drugs was on its way out, but statistics [show us that it is still alive](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/05/upshot/is-the-war-on-drugs-over-arrest-statistics-say-no.html) and well. Many are still being arrested, detained, and given criminal records of cannabis trafficking, growing, possession etc. But in those few circumstances we did get that little bone, a few records expunged here and there. 

Thank you, dear overlords. 

Today the federal government still regards cannabis as <b>"one of the most dangerous drugs"</b> available, and this notion is baffling because of how ignorant the stance is. Not to mention how glaringly hypocritical it is for them to hold this stance while endorsing a myriad of other arguably more harmful substances and activities, *that they themselves engage in*. It is nice of them to get rid of some records, I say <b>get rid of them all</b>. Free up that space and focus new attention on violent crimes please. If they are to be doing anything then it should be that. Go find some of the missing people whose families are still wondering about them, go help solve some cold cases. There are [tens of thousands of people missing](https://www.statista.com/statistics/240387/number-of-missing-persons-files-in-the-us-by-age/). Destroying homes, lives, and communities, with a drug war against cannabis doesn't bring any results to be proud of. 


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[pic3](https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/chicago-marijuana-arrest-statistics/Content?oid=4198958)
[pic4](https://www.wksu.org/post/medical-marijuana-purchases-are-low-despite-number-patients-registered)

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