I don’t have a problem with legalizing pot logically or fiscally, but how do you now tell your kids pot is okay but cocaine, LSD, speed, meth, and X are not?
See that’s the problem, we drilled it into their head that it is a “gate way” drug or dangerous as those other drugs when in actuality it is less harmful than most. We should not have bullshitted them in the first place. How many people die from tobacco? What kinds of problems arise from alcohol?
The roots of the socially ingrained stigma started in the 30s. Dupont had patented nylon and worked together with the Feds and the pulp and paper inustry to bring down hemp farmers. So they came out with propaganda films and pamphlets. They actually had one where it depicted white girls smoking it which would lead to seeking the “relations” of black men. lol
I’d say that pharmaceutical companies would be threatened by legalization because they know it could take a substantial bite out of the anti-depressant market, which is enormous in the US, as well.
