slimbruddah
Active member
Hey buddy.
Congradulations on being your governments ideal citizen.
I'm going to tell you how your "government" works.
Politicians are the same as anyone else, many haven't gotten degrees or gone to university. They don't know shit, they just know people.
The government said weed was illegal way back in the day, and they've kept it the same since then.
So think of all the generations that have grown up in society, they've all been taught that doing illegal stuff is bad. Weed is illegal. So, weed is "bad".
So why are all your politicians afraid of being pro-marijuana? Because as of right now, it's illegal. So if they try to change the law, and make it legal, tons of non weed smokers will get pissed as hell because they just think its a horrible horrible drug. The average joe is very narrow minded towards the subject of weed. Espically the older average joe, (ie. 50+).
Now if you get this huge group of citizens, angry at a politicion for trying to make this "drug" legal, the politician would face the fear of loosing a huge number of votes. This is what politicians fear, loosing votes. They need votes. They need votes to keep their job.
Legalizing will make them loose votes, so they might as well support the non-smoking side right now. This will make it way less complicated for them, and they'll keep getting the same votes every year.