I beg to differ....popular opinion is perhaps the most powerful force within a nation. If it wasn't for popular opinion France would not be what it is today. You're right that the Fed's are gonna try and milk as much money as they can from this stupid prohibition but I definitely can see within our life time pot being legalized. Once the newer generations begin to assimilate into the government is when we will start seeing change. Also its popular opinion that still needs to increase before it ever becomes legalized. Fed's love money but they have nothing if they're not praised by their own people. It's pretty big now but it's not huge enough to actually change it. My prediction is within the next few years we will see more and more states decriminalizing it and once all the states begin to ease up on it thats when the Federal government will begin to ease up as well first declaring a nation wide decriminalization and then complete legalization. Of course by the time it gets to that the newer generation will have come in as well as the popular opinion will have risen substantially.