yes legalize. but wont happen.
BLAME 1883
Come to Canada…its getting less illegal here all the time (that plus legal gay marriage plus strippers who take it all off and drinking at 18/19 and sex at 14 lol…)
DRUG WAR RANT – excellent article and timeline
Many people assume that marijuana was made illegal through some kind of process involving scientific, medical, and government hearings; that it was to protect the citizens from what was determined to be a dangerous drug.
The actual story shows a much different picture. Those who voted on the legal fate of this plant never had the facts, but were dependent on information supplied by those who had a specific agenda to deceive lawmakers. You’ll see below that the very first federal vote to prohibit marijuana was based entirely on a documented lie on the floor of the Senate.
http://blogs.salon.com/0002762/stories/2003/12/22/whyIsMarijuanaIllegal.html
Marijuana Policy Project
Marijuana Policy Project is the largest marijuana policy reform organization in the United States. Incorporated as a nonprofit organization in 1995, MPP works to minimize the harm associated with marijuana — both the consumption of marijuana and the laws that are intended to prohibit such use
http://www.mpp.org/
How and Why Drugs Became Illegal
Here, then, is the abbreviated story of how and why drugs became illegal in the United States. It is filled with more abuses, horrors, deceptions, and possible harm than any illegal drug has ever done. Prior to 1883, there were no federal laws against the manufacture, sale, use, or possession of drugs.
http://www.mcwilliams.com/books/books/aint/303a.htm#illegal