The Cannabis Reform Illusion: Why Voting for Politics is the New Heroin

Every two years, cannabis advocates wheel out the same ritual. Ballot measures, candidate endorsements, grasstops lobbying, NORML scorecards, press releases about historic progress. Every two years, a version of the same headline runs: “Cannabis Reform Reaches Tipping Point.” Every two years, the people who believed it discover that the tipping point was a marketing event.