Isn't it funny? They don't trust the government except on this one point. They fell hook, line and sinker for this one.
The thing that gets me is that it's always marijuana that's demonized. If marijuana were legalized states can cure their budget woes in one fell swoop. The crime associated with weed would virtually disappear, and states would have more tax revenue.
Just as Canada abandoned her free-born heritage in '68 with the election and subsequent re-election of that sonofab*tch Trudeau, Americans went down the socialist road when they got swept up by FDR and his New Deal in the '30s. The most intractable features of American Socialism, such as marijuana prohibition, are rooted in that era.
The 20th Century Carnival of Socialism is far from over.