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Originally Posted by pete2  I know but you cant legalize something that may be addictive and cancer causing. That is just asking for trouble, look at the difficulty there is getting society to go easy on tobacco and alcohol. Is there some marijuana industry lobby pushing these ideas on legalizing it? |
What you're encountering is threefold:
1. The prohibitionists have run out of arguments that can't be easily refuted by reference to factual evidence.
2. Users of certain substances, in particular cannabis, are fed up of being criminalised for their choice of intoxicant while the vested interests ensure that a much more dangerous substance remains legal, cheap and filling up 28% of our A+E beds nightly.
3. The money for a long-lost war on drugs is running out. Prohibition of alcohol ended when the US government realised it needed the revenue and desired to curb the power of the bootlegging gangs. We're in very similar circumstances now.
As was pointed out, there is little profit in cannabis. In places like Spain where it is tolerated to cultivate plants for personal use, that's what people do. Hence no market.