No health benefits? Tell that to chemotherapy patients, Crohn’s sufferers, people crippled by Asperger’s and countless other ailments. Hemp is the ONLY thing that helps many of them. The benefits were so unquestionable that the FDA reluctantly approved Marinol (a synthesized THC-based pill) even though it contradicted their own stance on hemp. However, Marinol is not as medicating since it lacks the modulating benefits of CBDs that hemp provides.
Should we ban opium-based painkillers because they give a buzz? Who are you to tell someone what they have no “good” reason to do anything on their free time? Is getting a buzz and reading a book much worse than sitting sober on the couch and watching trash TV?
There’s not one “good” reason to do many things to some people. Why grill a 5lb filet mignon, why go for a drive in a classic car, why bbq a whole hog, why gamble, why drink a vintage whiskey, why go hunting/fishing, why make love in a non-missionary position. I can go on forever.
All of those things can be very dangerous and some people think they are stupid or a waste of time. YOU have the right to pursue what makes you happy AND accept personal responsibility if you interfere with someone else’s rights. That is the foundation of freedom.
Prohibition laws have been used as the basis for countless nanny-state legislations and unconstitutional expansions of the federal government. That is enough reason to tear the laws down.
It’s all about the buzz nothing else.