The arguments for and against ‘reclassifying’ of cannabis in the US are varied, but the president’s enthusiasm comes and goes.

By Niko Vorobyov

As a young man, Seth Ferranti ran a drug-dealing operation distributing vast volumes of cannabis and LSD across college campuses in the United States.

It was the 1980s and US President Ronald Reagan had proclaimed that “marijuana – pot, grass, whatever you want to call it – is probably the most dangerous drug in the United States.”

“I didn’t believe them,” says Seth Ferranti, now a documentary filmmaker and director of Tortured Mind: The Reality of Post Incarceration Syndrome.