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Resolution on the Control of Marijuana
Marijuana should be regulated and taxed, and most criminal sanctions should be eliminated.
Our societal response to marijuana is doing more harm than good. It is ineffective at controlling marijuana use, especially among young people; it costs Washington taxpayers many millions of dollars annually; it diverts law-enforcement and judicial resources from more pressing uses; it contributes to other pressures to build costly new prisons; it burdens thousands of non-troublesome users with criminal records that create obstacles to employment and education, increasing the likelihood that they may become public charges; it sustains a lucrative black market with associated criminal activity and loss of tax revenue; and to the extent that it has been expressed in laws that many citizens view as unwarranted and consistently disregard, it promotes disrespect for law.
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