Originally Posted by ThunderBalls

What a lot of people don't realize is that the govt and other industries are already making a fortune with marijuana being illegal. If marijuana became legal almost half the cops in the country would be unemployed, a quarter the prisons would be shut down, cities would go broke from the lack of forfeiture and fine proceeds, and almost half a million people that work in the courts, jails, and rehab facilities would be out of a job. These are the people that benefit from prohibition and are being funded by our tax dollars and the 858,408 people arrested every year (one every 30 seconds) for the simple use of marijuana.