[GeronL]

if the drug problem was not worth worrying about they wouldn't have banned them.

[greenwolf]

if the drug problem was not worth worrying about they wouldn't have banned them.

In the case of marijuana at least, they banned it because they were worried about profits. Hemp is by far the cheapest and most efficient thing in the world to make paper out of and Weyerhauser and Dupont basically got it banned for that reason.