Dear President Trump and the People of the United States,

I’m Stephen Miniotis, writing from Toronto, Canada, where the air’s a bit freer and the beer's a bit cooler and the cannabis flows legally. I’m penning this for my Patreon: DonateAMeal.ca and subsequently TheMutant.net and SteveMini.com. I write for free and wrestle with the world’s absurdities, and today I’m zeroing in on America’s cannabis problem. Let me put this as blunt as possible: you’re blowing billions—tens of billions—chasing down folks who grow, sell, or smoke a plant that’s less harmful than your average liquor cabinet - and probably very good for hundreds of ailments to boot! This isn’t just bad policy; it’s a national facepalm of embarassment that you can't toke a joint but you can kill your liver with alcohol in the United States: or face arrest! I can't make this stuff up.

Listen. Canada’s already legalized pot, letting households grow plants that yield pounds of bud. It’s time you stopped jailing gardeners and started building an open market that turns green into income. Let’s talk sense. The numbers are staggering. The U.S. drops about $3.6 billion annually enforcing marijuana laws, per the ACLU, with over 600,000 arrests in 2018 alone—mostly for possession, not trafficking. That’s cops, courts, and cages eating your tax dollars to punish people who aren’t hurting anyone. These aren’t criminals; they’re your neighbors, your kids, often Black or Latino folks hit hardest by a system that’s anything but colorblind. Meanwhile, the black market laughs, untaxed and unregulated, fueling cartels instead of communities. You’re not winning a war on drugs; you’re bankrolling a fiasco. Up here, we legalized recreational cannabis in 2018, and guess what? No apocalypse. Households can grow four plants, enough for a couple of pounds if you know your stuff. Legal shops sell tested, taxed weed, generating over CAD $5 billion in 2024 and climbing. Crime’s dipped where legal markets thrive, and teen use hasn’t spiked—regulation works better than prohibition. We’re not perfect, but we’re proof you can embrace weed without embracing anarchy.

Here’s my pitch: legalize marijuana nationwide and create a market that’s open, fair, and profitable. Let Americans grow their own, like we do, but go bigger. Set up a system where excess homegrown bud, if it passes lab tests for quality—potency, purity, no nasties—can be sold legally. Picture a gig economy for growers: urban farmers, backyard hobbyists, or that guy down the street with a hydroponic setup, all feeding a regulated marketplace. Tax it, set standards, and watch the revenue flood in. Colorado’s already pulling in hundreds of millions a year from legal sales; a national market could fund schools, infrastructure, whatever you love. It’s a no-brainer. This isn’t just about cash. It’s about justice. Weed laws disproportionately screw over marginalized communities, despite equal usage across races. The war on drugs has been a war on people, and legalization is a step toward redemption. Plus, legal markets starve illegal dealers, cutting violence and the pipeline to harder drugs. You, President Trump, love winning. This is a win: for the economy, for freedom, for fairness, for equality, for marginalized folk. You’ve pushed markets and deregulation—here’s your chance to deliver both. Let Americans grow, sell, and smoke weed openly, not in chains. Canada’s shown it’s possible; now it’s your turn. Stop burning billions on a failed crusade and plant the seeds for a smarter future, literally and metaphorically. As William S. Burroughs, a literary rebel who toked his share, once wrote, “The junk merchant doesn’t sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product.” America’s been sold a broken drug war for too long. It’s time to break the cycle, legalize weed, and let prosperity bloom.

I'd go even further. Legalize psychadelics, too. Why not mushrooms, too? Never arrest a human for getting high: only direct him to a hospital if he's an addict. This is a doctor's problem not a cop's. But what do I know? I'm a bleeding heart liberal and a democrat who wants healthcare and an education for all peoples. And while you're at it? Legalize OnlyFans and lewd content, too and liberate our women who become millionaires for selling spicy lewd content. The algorithm is the male gaze and women have perfected it's function. From what I understand, the top ten earners on Onlyfans are all women: and together they generate over 200 million a year! But that's another article for another time.

One win at a time.
Yours in truth,
Stephen Miniotis

8 July 2025.

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Stephen Miniotis is a polyamorous straight person living with a disability: he hears voices: "emulations of real people, dead or alive, or fictitious ones; calculating probabilities in my mind which may never occur. But what if they do? Therefore I am ill, paranoid and schizophrenic."

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