Marijuana prohibition is a failed policy. Most people are now  in favor of reforming federal and state marijuana laws. It’s not hard to see why.

• Sick patients are unable to access beneficial medical marijuana treatment. Marijuana has the potential to relieve chronic pain as well as opioids but without the addictive properties.

• Current laws waste billions of dollars criminalizing marijuana users, even for low-level offenses.

• African Americans and Latinos are arrested more frequently for marijuana even though white people use marijuana at similar rates.

• Prohibition creates an illegal marijuana market that benefits organized crime, drug cartels and gangs.

• As shown by states like Colorado where marijuana is legal, tax revenues from legal sales are a boost to state coffers.

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As your congressman, my priorities regarding marijuana laws include:

• Enacting legislation that provides and protects access to medical marijuana.

• The elimination of criminal penalties for the adult use and personal cultivation of marijuana.

• The creation of a legal regulatory market for the responsible production and distribution of marijuana to adults.

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