This Cartoon Illustrates Why We Need to End Pot Prohibition
Published 2014— archived from the original weed.nz. NZ cannabis law has moved on since; read it as a snapshot of its time. For information & entertainment, not advice.
This cartoon, by TechtodaProductions illustrates perfectly why we need to end pot prohibition. According to TechtodaProductions, "The Flower contrasts a utopian society that freely farms and consumes a pleasure-giving flower with a society where the same flower is illegal and its consumption is prohibited. The animation is a meditation on the social and economic costs of marijuana prohibition."
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