Quote Originally Posted by ldg420
Millions upon millions of dollars are spent every fiscal year by large pharmaceutical companies to keep things such as MJ illegal. Aside from that there is a billion dollar a year pre-employment drug testing industry that would be virtually wiped out if MJ was legal, that along with state and federal revenues extracted from enforcing so called drug enforcement laws and penalties are extremely profitable.
You're right. But, I'm not leaving this world better than I arrived, and, no one wants to help me out with that (aside from "criminals"), so what reason do I have to better the rest of the world?

If the U.S. lost millions of dollars, making cannabis legal, they'd have to look somewhere else for that money. Maybe, they could do some good in another aspect of society.

Like full-fledged methamphetamine policing. Or, trading food for labor.