MADISON: Another negative effect of marijuana prohibition is that the failure to regulate the cannabis market puts cannabis consumers and sellers in danger. Cannabis pronibition has steadily made things worse as lawmakers found new ways to penalize cannabis consumers.

A beneficial herb that once was a widely used American medicine was turned into an illegal product rivalling gold ounce per ounce in value. The failure to follow the reccomendations of panels including the Shafer Commission and establish a legal regulated market has led to myriad potential hazards for peaceful, otherwise law abiding citizens who prefer safer alternatives to society’s approved legal drugs of choice, alcohol, tobacco and prescription medications.

This was demonstrated again by an incident reported in Madison’s Capital Times about three young men robbed at gunpoint attempting to purchase cannabis:

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