Banning pot wasn't about drugs. "It was about power", -- as libertarians put it.
Absolutely. If you take a look at the most horrible, freedom supressing supreme court rulings over the past 50 years, most of them have drugs at their nexus.
Interestingly, when you start tracing back precident cited in these rulings, most of them ultimately go back to prohibition. As most folks know, prohibition was eventually repealed. Unfortunately, supreme court rulings based on the existance of an unrepealed 18th amendment. In a sane world where the government wasn't so bloddy-minded about the continual increase of its power, those rulings would have been declared null and void in 1933 following the passage of the 21st amendment.
Yeah, just think of the millions of lives that could have been saved if only pot wasn't banned.
It was about racism and profits.