[leftcoastlibertarian]

"A growing body of evidence now demonstrates that smoking marijuana can increase the risk of serious mental health problems,"
Serious mental health problems cause drug abuse. This is more justification to continue that failed drug policies of the past. As usual, the Gov't throws billions of $ at the symptom while completely ignoring the problem.

[sageb1]

"Serious mental health problems cause drug abuse. This is more justification to continue that failed drug policies of the past. As usual, the Gov't throws billions of $ at the symptom while completely ignoring the problem."

And the sad thing is that the people who have mental health problems cannot afford therapy because many states will not allow medicaid to cover it. Instead, these people are thrown in jail, which causes over-crowding.