Marijuana and the law

[Heir Apparent]

Marijuana was banned from the US because the dickhead that largely ran the paper manufacturing business didn't want the innovation of modernized hemp manufacturing to take his monopoly. Hemp has enormous benefits to an economy and to the environment.

It's still illegal for largely the same reasons, and also because it will seriously wound other enterprises as mentioned, such as alcohol and tobacco companies.

The benefits of full legalization and regulation far outweigh the negatives. Cartels/dealers lose business, millions of sick people feel better, arrest rates and prison population go down, money spent on pursuing growers goes towards other things, the deficit plummets, jobs are created, and people everywhere will chill the fuck out about the little things. Just to name a few. I'm sure I missed something.

The arrest rate for marijuana use is absurd and there are way too many people in jail for it. It's embarrassing.

Edit - I also have to contend your point about people being lazy if they all smoked. That's simply not true. Lazy people WILL do that, hard workers will continue to do hard work. Weed doesn't suddenly make you stop functioning unless your on a powerful indica strain and you're me.

To loosely quote Joe Rogan: if you're a lazy fuck and you smoke, you'll be a lazy fuck who smokes it. If you work hard and smoke, you'll be a hard working smoker.