De-criminalization of marijuana would cost the corporate media elites billions in advertising revenue becuase alcohol sales would plummet. Politically connected special interest groups like for profit prisons and the prison guards union would also suffer. However, farmers would benefit from being allowed to grow industrial hemp and manufacturing workers would benefit from making consumer goods from industrial hemp.
Making marijuana illegal just to enrich the Alcohol Industry, Corporate Media, and the Incarceraton Industry is a perfect example of why crony capitalism is bad for a free market economy.
Was MJ made illegal for all those reasons way back when? I could buy into the Booze Industry, but not the others then.