It is because this country is addicted to BULLSHIT and control. people here are obsessed with professionalism and pot is considered very unprofessional. the people that make laws are afraid of losing votes. professionalism is BULLSHIT. everybody is to worried about keeping with the pack, and anybody that strays away will get picked off by the wolves.they are afraid of change. also there are all of these busy-body types that think that its there job to help make everybody follow the rules.thanks Joe Citizen for your completely aimless duty to society you are making things so much better. and they are also the only people voting, making our voting system a gigantic display of public world-wide BULLSHIT. we look so stupid. they think automatically that as long as its against the law or rules that it is bad, wrong, or immoral. they dont understand or ask WHY its illegal or against the rules because they are programed not to ask, just follow commands and be a good worker drone. they cant see through the BULLSHIT enough to see the ill-intent and personal agenda of corporations or whoever. and of course there is racism. if this country wasn't obsessed with BULLSHIT , the government would prioritize there problems. that would put METH, HEROINE, and COCAINE at the TOP of there list. but they dont, they spend almost every bit of 12.5 BILLION fucking dollars of our tax money every year chasing pretty much all of us around like a bunch of chickens with there heads cut off, pointing guns and ruining the lives of perfectly able-bodied young people that should be out working and supporting our failing economy. they take their ability to drive and work, then MORE money is wasted supporting them on welfare, food stamps, health care ect. just like me, and i dont even have a record. i just LOOK like a "bad" person. i kinda look like a hippie. its hard to get a job. sounds like you used to use the word nigger and meant it. or most recently faggot. we are just the next group to come out of the closet. you are a fucking racist. i look like somebody and you are making judgment . you are not god. and dont get me started on the "gateway" drug. it was made into it. first its legal to drink, so alot of society thinks thats its ok to get plastered on occasion. so then people are comfortable with getting wasted. this is hard drug use. then pot is illegal even though everybody is gonna do it anyways. this gets people comfortable with breaking drug laws and they are experienced with hard drug use because of alcohol. this makes a much easier path to or "gateway" to hard drug use. if pot was legal then it wouldn't be a gateway anymore because it would separate society from hard drugs.hard drugs would be more easily controlled and isolated. how many people have known pot dealers that turn out to be coke dealers, then coke addicts? then every one of their friends become coke heads too.anybody know somebody that was shot in the head during a pot deal? yeah it was a dime. it probably didnt even weigh, and had pesticides sprayed on it. BULLSHIT! how out of control does it have to get before we realize that the punishment is worse than the crime?!?! WHEN ITS TOO LATE! just like everything else. we see it coming and dont believe it till it happens. we knew that the levies weren't gonna hold, but it took Katrina to open our eyes. then because of BULLSHIT we were too obsessed with the wars and forgot to help out our own. when will it all stop?