The reason marijuana isn't legal is the fact that it is not profitable to the goverment to have it legal.
Think about it. Alcohol is produced by large corporations for the most part, same with tobacco. The government can easily place taxes on alcohol and tobacco. Tabacco is hard to get it into useable form from the plant, and Alcohol isn't easy to make either.
With weed, a monkey could grow it, the production isn't, and will never be controlled by large corporations. Sales are on the street and there is no way the government can tax it, so it is illegal.
Notice the same trend with moonshine, correct me if i'm wrong, but the laws are you can only produce a gallon a day for PERSONAL CONSUMPTION.
It's pretty obvious the the argument on the side of the government isn't health because weed is bad, it's money, because they cant profit from it.
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