Rules. Rules. Rules.
Regulations
and
Regulations, and laws.
One of my biggest issues with the American Legal System is the overly complex structure in which most law is based. Complexity tends to create unequal positions of power between people and people, and people and corporations.
Complexity also induces apathy.
Apathy inhibits participation.
We keep the status quo.
With regard to marijuana criminalization, it's not so much the complexity that stalls progress, I think it is the collective lack of focus on how the controlling laws can actually be used to create a taxable structure of legal marijuana distribution.
At the federal level, marijuana is illegal under the Controlled Substance Act (CSA). The biggest problem with the CSA is that it is very long, and at times is riddled in uncertainty and complexity. In my next post, I'll start breaking down the CSA, and will explore how international drug policy may have a bigger effect on marijuana criminalization than any domestic regulation.
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