Put down your glass of bourbon, and join us in the 21st century. It's time to make recreational marijuana legal in Connecticut.

I'm not talking about utilizing cannabis for the explicit reason of getting baked out of your mind while overdosing on Cheetos. By the way, a six-pack of beer, three or four glasses of wine, or a scotch or two could accomplish the same effect.

The Hartford Courant recently reported that a Quinnipiac poll taken last March showed that 63% of adults polled thought that making it legal to posses small amounts of pot for recreational use was OK. Let's face it folks, prohibition didn't work from 1920 to 1933 and it's not working now with marijuana.

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A Washington Post article states that legalizing weed has done what many years of the war on drugs hasn't been able to accomplish, which is taking a huge chunk out of Mexican drug cartel's profits.

One year after Colorado legalized marijuana, the state realized $40 million in tax revenue, there was a decrease in violent crime rates, along with a decrease in statewide traffic fatalities. With Connecticut being as much as $266 million in the red, the legalization of cannabis could help that number come tumbling down.

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