because:
1. we're peaceful people and we just like to mellow out, in the 20s the mafia killed people over moonshine we're not like that
2. we are stoned
3. since the government has gotten dumber since the 20s(probably because they stopped smoking) they won't legalize it even if we riot and crap

they are also dumb because by not legalizing it they are creating more problems from a good thing such as:

1. they could tax it and make a tidy profit

2. it would take power and money away from gangs

3. it would remove marijuana from drug culture(in holland illicit drug use dropped after legalization)

4. you wouldn't have you wouldn't have people that are growing for personal use in jail because they are in no way hurting anyone(they are not giving gangs money and encouraging violence)

i don't remember who said this but:
"i went to a meeting of people whos lives have been ruined by pot the place was empty. then i went to a meeting of people whos lives had been ruined by pot LAWS and the place was packed!"

5. it would encourage tourisim to the country if they were one of only a few places were it is legal. and make a nice profit that can go to america's crippled health care system! how many people want to go to Holland for pot?!

6. instead of having drunk teens running in the streets breaking windows, mugging people and such we would have a bunch of stoned teens eating munchies goin' "woAH Duuuude...."

7. revenue from chocalate would soar! LOL

8. the government might gain some respect from the lower-middle class because naturally the revenue from pot would fix the health care system and fund support groups for alcohol, coke, meth ect

9.the iraq war would end cos the Americans would share joints with the iraqies and they would mellow out and stop fighting! (ok thats a bit far fetched but it MIGHT happen...)

10. the ONLY negitive or possably dangerous effects of marijuana is the smoke and the high. the smoke damages lungs BUT if it was legal vaporizers would be legal and everybody could smoke without fear of killing their lungs. the high is only hazardous because if you drive while stoned your reaction time and coordanation will be off but if we look at driving drunk that kills thousands of people and -most-, not all, people that crash while high are under the influence of alcohol as well. they amplfy the effects of each other to make you really un-co. But since alcohol is legal and is worse its no exuse not to legalize it

dont flame me on the last one. anyways look at some of the extreme propoganda used to out law coke, they said it made black people as strong as 5 policemen and made them ipervious to bullets. what about when they out lawed pot "a man kill his family with an axe under the influence of the drug." basicly NEVER belive anything the government says, they have more shit in them than the sewers.