8. Value Health Over Punishment
Furthermore, Trump has often expressed concern for treating the epidemic of drug addiction and the need to expand treatment availability. Once again, Trump has young people in mind particularly.
Multiple studies show that drug treatment is both less expensive and more effective in treating drug abuse than prison. It’s also the right thing to do from an ethical standpoint. Legal weed would make America great again for two reasons here.
For one, the president would accomplish his goal of reducing deaths from drug overdoses. Medical cannabis is a much safer painkiller, for example, than opioids commonly prescribed.
And second, reducing the number of non-violent offenders locked up for minor drug charges saves states and the government money.