Yet alcohol is 100% guaranteed to rot every single organ in the body. You can take out the organs and physically see the rot with your own eyes. The fact that booze and smokeable tobacco remain legal is proof that this policy is a lie and not "for the children".
The truth is that many people have become comfortable making money from hemp prohibition and don't want it to change. Our entire policy on hemp/cannabis is based on this corruption.
Of course some people will become compulsive users but we have also seen people leaving babies to starve for game and TV addiction. Many people waste their lives watching tabloids and TV. Should we ban everything pleasurable for a few weak people? NOTHING in this world is harmless and all is relative.
Oh for the sake of God give it up. There is a good reason why pot has been on the fringes of society and culture for well...forever! Yes, there are negative physical consequences but more importantly it's damaging in mentally, emotionally and spiritually in ways that alcohol is not.
There's not some grand conspiracy to keep pot underground. It's a simple recognition over thousands and thousands of years that humans and pot are NOT a good combination.
It stunts the emotional and spiritual growth of people. Stops it dead in it's tracks. Legalize it and we have a whole generation in arrested development. A whole generation of idiots stuck at 14 or 15 or 16 years old or whenever they first started smoking dope.
It's EXACTLY why we have leftist thought dominating our government and society...because a bunch of idiot, hippy, dope smoking potheads ARE in charge and are perpetually stuck in an adolescent mindset and figure that their mindset is good for the country.
SEX DRUGS AND ROCK AND ROLL is the policy of our government and culture.