Will more marijuana use make America a better place?

Not many who’ve seen and smelled what legalizing the drug has done to cities like New York, D.C. and San Francisco would say so.

Yet President Donald Trump is contemplating a change to marijuana’s federal classification that would make it easier to buy and more profitable to sell.

The pot industry is heavily invested in getting its product recategorized from a Schedule 1 to a Schedule 3 drug, and industry leaders ponied up for a $1-million-a-plate Trump fundraising dinner earlier this month to hear what the president had in mind, The Wall Street Journal reports.

The president should ignore the well-funded cannabis lobby. What matters is what more and cheaper marijuana will mean for ordinary Americans.

Twenty-four states have legalized recreational use of the drug, despite the revealing results experienced by the first state to do so.

Taking advantage of high Democratic turnout the year of President Barack Obama’s reelection, activists passed a Colorado ballot measure to make pot legal back in 2012.

Legalization didn’t take effect until 2014, but by 2022 marijuana use in Colorado and other states that had legalized by then was 24% higher than in states where recreational use remained illegal.

A new study by the South Korean scholar Sunyoung Lee in the International Review of........

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