Originally Posted By: Derid

It should be legal, because making it illegal does not seriously effect usage levels... it just costs a fuckton of tax money and public resources investigating, prosecuting and jailing offenders.


And there, in a nutshell, is why it will never be legal.

Too may people depend on the income the "war on drugs", including weed, provides.

Trickle down economics? Yep and just think of all those people who are out there daily fighting to eliminate pot from the streets, homes, etc. That's a TON of money in wages, assets, etc that if suddenly gone (specifically just for pot mind you) things start to break down.

It's so large now that stopping it all together by legalizing it would have worse effects than the drug itself.