This shit is still going? You all can argue all you want but you're all just preaching to the choir. The people that are vehemently against it will be against it even it becomes legal, just like all of the people that are so against alcohol.

There used to be Prohibition and Anti-Prohibition political parties just like the NORML advocates and the Weed party in Canada. Alcohol used to be prohibited starting in 1920 and ending in 1933. Legal alcohol sales helped to boost the economy through taxation as well as employment (remember this was immediately after the great depression). Organized crime was reduced since bootlegging ended as a viable business (albeit grey market) practice. Someday we'll see it legalized and it should help the agricultural market of the midwest regain its economic footing through hemp.

Anyways, this is all just beating a dead horse; are you all just getting high and then bumping this thread to the top? Oh well, I'm about to go vote third party and then start studying for finals.