The Death Knell of the Prohition of Weed

[Annik]

Well, that's the underbelly of it, yes, but as for the surface stuff, it's kinda obvious. Private prisons are being built all over the nation, with corporate tycoons making crazy amounts of money from locking people up. If marijuana were suddenly made legal, they would lose out on all those inmates in there for nothing more than simpley being in possession of marijuana, selling marijuana or using marijuana. If they lose inmates, they lose money so they do everything they can to push politicians to pass harsher and stricter penalties on people and they push judges to hand down harsh sentences with a long time in prison. We simply need to do away with private prisons; there's way too much potential for corruption.

I'm sure the tobacco and alcohol industry are paying money to keep it illegal, too. And the various industries that would take a hit to hemp-based products being legal again. There are a lot of fingers in the prohibition pie.