Not my information. Even knowledgable pro-pot advocates do not dispute this.
The war against marijuana is the only way the federal government can make money from cannabis. If it were legal - the going price would be about $2. per ounce instead of $100. plus per ounce. By the fed.s keeping the price of cannabis artificially high - it allows the fat cat smuggling rings to stay very profitable. In short - your federal government is charging you over 10 billion dollars per year to make marijuana smuggling profitable. It has nothing to do with morals or harm to life.
I'm sorry, you thought does not seem to have made it through the tinfoil intact. Are you saying that the fed.s are in cahoots with the unnamed fat cats?
It kind of reminds me of how the FDA is "protecting" the U.S. public from cheap foreign prescription drugs- so the domestic producers can make insanely high profits.
Might I say pharmaceutical lobbyists?