Nearly everyone in America knows someone whose life was altered as a result of the illegal herb.
Pretty stupid but you have to know there be a whole lot of folks making a living due to it being illegal.
Drug rehab.
Parole officers.
Prison guards.
drug school.
Juidges, and a whole lot of pond scum otherwise known as lawyers.
Dealers and cartel associates.
Course you could levalize it, allow the public to maybe grow three plants for personal consumption and in one fell swoop pull the plug on narco cartels.
That solution is too obvious.
Here’s an interesting read for yall:
http://www.drugwarrant.com/articles/why-is-marijuana-illegal/
Don’t forget the DEA, weed is probably the biggest target for them...
Ya forgot BIG PHARMA
The WOD is a 100% corrupt government racket, which only grows the size of government at all levels, giving them more control and power.
Legalizing pot alone, and you could eliminate hundreds of thousands of cops and their lottery style pensions, which are literally choking off the private sector.
Yes, huge amounts of government employment are dependent on keep drugs like marijuana illegal. Our predecessors were much smarter than us, they recognized and eliminated the failure of alcohol prohibition less than 10 years after it started.
Today, failed policy persists for decades - the drug war, the war on poverty and the welfare state, affirmative action, immigration, car pool lanes to name some. All failed policies that few even think about, let alone question.
USA people have become fat and mentally lazy from decades of affluence and television.