Richard Branson says Spain can solve its economic problems by legalizing marijuana

[Unbreakable]

Sir Richard Branson believes that the ideal way for Spain to get out of its current morass of national debt, savage austerity cuts, and social turmoil would be to legalize and tax marijuana.

The billionaire founder of the Virgin Group suggested at the opening of the world’s largest cannabis museum in Barcelona on Wednesday that this policy “would help get the country back on its feet.”

Branson is a member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy, a body “which includes five ex-presidents and Kofi Annan, the former United Nations secretary general, and which concluded last year that the war on drugs had failed and called for experiments in decriminalisation.”

Other members of the commission include former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz and former Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso.

Branson was invited to Barcelona to receive the Cannabis Culture Award 2012 on behalf of the commission and in recognition of its ground-breaking report. In his speech, his praised the nearby town of Rasquera, whose inhabitants voted to rent land to a Barcelona cannibis-growers’ society as part of an “anticrisis plan.”

The town’s mayor, Bernat Pellisa, explained that the idea to use marijuana to help get the town out of recession was inspired by the global commission’s report.

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[mgrady3]

Perhaps this is good but its still a small step

we need more people who are still in power to be the one's coming out in support of these ideas; not just billionaires, ex-prime ministers, ex-law enforcers, etc...

 

[LogicSoDeveloped]

Perhaps this is good but its still a small step

we need more people who are still in power to be the one's coming out in support of these ideas; not just billionaires, ex-prime ministers, ex-law enforcers, etc...

totally agreed man, we need people who can actually change things, not just people who don't really aren't really risking their reputation as much for what they believe to be true. I'm guessing that most politicians understand that marijuana is harmless but are unwilling to admit this for various reasons.

 

[stevein7]

Capitalist crisis will not be resolved by legalising marijuana in any form.

I tend to think that the drug war will drag on as long as capitalism, but I think the economic benefits for the ruling class can be maintained whilst being fairly relaxed towards the end user.

Only way we are going to get a decent society is after capitalism.

Obviously just a quck thought.

 

[The Network]

So can the US
and Mexico
and any south american country
and any other country in the world.