Colorado is raking in some serious tax money from the sale of Pot. As other states look on and see the monetary benefits from the sales, will they move to legalize? I think the answer is yes, especially at a time when budgets are ballooning and spiraling out of control.
I believe it has been Illegal because it was determined by the Corporate state to reduce productivity. We're under centralized federal control, which operates the U.S. as a corporation. We're all employees of the state and as such are privy to the state's decision on internal policy. Now that the tables have shifted and it can be profited upon even with "reduced productivity" the move to legalize may be made, not for the basic right to input what you will to your own body, but because financially it makes sense.
The resistance for legalization will come from people who are influenced by the 100 year old thinking at the time of prohibition. Cannabis has been Illegal since prohibition because of fraudulent advertising. Reefer Madness displays either ignorance of the drug or a malevolent attempt to demonize it. Marijuana has been lumped in with deadly narcotics, when it really is not similar. Culturally we have been taught to dislike it, and it stems from this era.
I personally do not use Cannabis, but disagree with the idea we can regulate people's decisions.
It is an interesting discussion, like cannabis or not. The questions to consider are:
- Do you think you have the right to tell others what they can put in their body, by the threat of imprisonment?
- Does the amount of money from taxation lend to its legalization?
- What are the harms of cannabis usage?
- What am I missing?
http://www.steamboattoday.com/news/monthly-marijuana-sales-of-100-million-the-new-norm-in-colorado/
learned years ago that cannabis was demonized for among other reasons its ability to be used to create the daily newspaper. this was a very cheap alternative to cutting down trees. but I guess the demonizing of cannabis by William R Hearst was more important than using a readily available resource that had been around since the days of George Washington
It's been used forever and ever, then all the sudden "We've got to ban this". I remember reading ol George used to smoke it for aches and pains.