Despite Legalization, Black Market Marijuana in Nevada Rakes in $242M a Year
Despite legalizing marijuana in 2017, Nevada continues to deal with illicit marijuana sold illegally on the black market.
According to a recent news report out of Las Vegas, illegal marijuana sales run approximately $242 million every year in the state.
Nationwide, we have seen evidence that legalizing marijuana does not weaken the black market. It actually emboldens drug cartels who grow, ship, and sell illicit marijuana on an industrial scale.
Illegal marijuana operations often are linked to labor trafficking and violent crime — contributing to what some have dubbed “modern day slavery on American soil.”
Legalizing drugs — whether it’s marijuana itself or the THC and other substances extracted from cannabis — has not worked as intended in places like California. Arkansas should think twice before making the same mistakes these states have made.
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Arkansas Congressmen Score Flawlessly on Faith, Family, and Freedom
Arkansas’ four congressmen and two U.S. senators each earned a perfect score on a report card our friends at FRC Action in Washington, D.C. recently released.
FRC Action is the legislative affiliate of Family Research Council. The pro-life, pro-family organization works in Washington to educate and influence elected officials and to promote faith, family, and freedom across America.
FRC Action described its Voter Scorecard for 2024, saying, “This scorecard contains a compilation of significant votes on federal legislation affecting faith, family, and freedom that FRC Action either supported or opposed, as well as one cosponsorship that FRC Action opposed.”
The scorecard looked at where congressional delegates stood on 12 votes in the U.S. House of Representatives and four votes in the U.S. Senate. The legislation tracked on the scorecard dealt primarily with abortion, the right to life, bioethics, LGBT issues, and marijuana.
Arkansas’ Congressmen French Hill, Steve Womack, Rick Crawford, and Bruce Westerman and Arkansas’ U.S. Senators John Boozman and Tom Cotton all received perfect 100% scores on the FRC Action Voter Scorecard.
For perspective, out of the 535 members of congress serving in the U.S. House and Senate, only 171 received perfect scores from FRC Action.
Arkansas is among the most conservative, pro-life, pro-family states in America, and our elected officials reflect that. Arkansans should be happy to know the congressmen and senators they sent to Washington voted well on these issues.