Business admin on 07 Feb 2009 03:44 pm
Insurance Industry to Push for Legal Pot
In a surprise move, a group representing insurance agencies and the insurance industry has announced that it will be launching an effort later this month to legalize marijuana. The Directorate of Insurance Executives says that the time has come for a more measured federal approach to marijuana regulations.
“Our jails are filled with young men and women whose only crime has been the wrapping up and smoking of what for millennia was a simple ditch weed,” says Emmanuel Smith, head of the New York-based group. “Our studies have shown that short and intermediate term use of marijuana is not harmful, and our drug laws should reflect that fact.”
See the whole article at CAP News:
http://www.crystalair.com/content.php?id=91200902008
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