Why Is Marijuana Always Mentioned In Meth And Opioid Busts?

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Marijuana is just now starting to find its footing as a legitimate substance in the United States, like alcohol and tobacco. But make no mistake about it, the plant is still mostly illegal in the United States. Research has even shown that weed is safer than America’s two favorite drugs, alcohol and tobacco. And remember, the herb is still mostly banned in the United States. In the United States alone, 12% of the population is now using cannabis regularly, according to a January 2020 Gallup poll.

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Marijuana is just now starting to find its footing as a legitimate substance in the United States, like alcohol and tobacco.

If you ask some cannabis consumers, marijuana is not a drug, per se, but rather, it is a healing plant used to treat a variety of health conditions from anxiety to cancer. There are even those who believe that people who use marijuana are not of the same class as those who get high on hard drugs — that the pot user of today is thriving, earns a salary of $75K-plus per year and so forth. Yet, all one has to do is scour the crime news on the Internet on any given day to see that drug dealers and users, alike, are being apprehended,...

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