[ubik]

ummm didn't read too long but how can growing and selling marijuan be illegal if marijuan is legal? ofcourse there's the tax thing and goverments profit but if they make it legal they should made it legal in all forms (growing, using, selling). And do pepole really think that if marijuan becomes legal everybody will suddenly start smoking it? and if they do there aren't going to be "social and criminal problems associated with alcohol for a noisy few? " because weed doesn't make you angry, it doesn't maske you want to go out and streal stuff etc.

"his drug is not harmless. Marijuana is used to obtain guns, cocaine and cash to finance methamphetamine labs."

coacine and methamphetamines are illegal even if you make marijuan legal and goverments spend more money on guns than anything and peole in the US can buy guns from almost everywhere without any real limitations.

Marijuana is big business, gang-controlled and always will be, as long as it's illegal somewhere.

I think that speaks for itself.... make it legal all around the world so peole can grow it by themselves and not have to deal with "drug pushers" etc....