Marijuana: A Short History of Changes in Law and Public Opinion

Marijuana: A Short History of Changes in Law and Public Opinion

It's interesting how different public opinion is now than it was years go during my parents childhood. I predict it won't be long until pot is legal in Illinois. If the government were to legalize marijuana I believe that there would be far more benefits than consequences to doing so. Jails wouldn't be so swamped for one thing. Plus the government could regulate the hell out of it!! Monitoring grow fields and the cultivation of the plant and then taxing it all over the place. What the government should do is make cigarettes illegal and replace that industry with the marijuana business. The outcome from such a thing would be higher cooperation between people within the country, more of us would get along with one another, and the country would probably get along better with other country's as well. All in all everyone would be happier and peace would spread all over the place for years and years to come.