The most important thing to accomplish before this can become a reality is a complete revamping of the FDA and the Department of Health. We desperately need to get the influence of the insurance and pharmaceutical industries OUT of our health care system. Their main concern is not the health of Americans. It's the bottom line. They are corporations. Their job is to make money. It’s in their best interest to keep America sick. Given the choice drug companies would much rather see you dependent to a chemical they make than be cured outright by something natural. The cost of health care will drop when we aren’t limited to a legal monopoly peddling dangerous and expensive chemicals. We have very little accurate information as to what we are putting into our bodies and what alternatives may exist. According to the drug companies governmental arm, the FDA, no naturally occurring substance can be used to treat of cure an illness. Despite the fact that science knows this is untrue, that’s what health care is limited to in the United States. The greatest nation on Earth and our health care is based on money instead of science. That’s infuriating to me.

So how are we going to pay for this? The answer has already been pitched at this site. Through the legalization and taxation of marijuana, we have a source of tax revenue that can help pay for health care for all Americans. This will reduce dramatically the tax burden left on average Americans. I feel that this combined with the elimination of the legal monopolies in health care will pay for health care for ALL Americans

(And please don’t bust into the “but the added affects of marijuana use on society blah, blah, blah“… If you look at the science you will see that the risks associated with marijuana use are a fraction of that of the dangerous chemicals that are legally prescribed and illegally abused throughout America today. The same dangerous chemicals big phara pays your doctor to get patients dependent to. So you tell me? What’s really the more dangerous substance?) - by mikey johnson