SPRINGFIELD – While the trendy emphasis may be on "freeing" people to legally use cannabis, one former addict says the whole "legalize pot" movement now expected to be embraced by Illinois' Democrat-controlled General Assembly is really all about selling THC.
"This isn't your grandpa's weed," Ben Cort says in a TedTalk from Colorado.
In 2012, Colorado legalized cannabis and kickstarted a multibillion dollar industry with every product imaginable — brownies, gummy bears, granola bars, even lube! But to say that we’ve “legalized cannabis” is mistaken — we’ve commercialized THC.
"The vast majority [of pot] being sold today really isn't cannabis," Cort says.
