Follow the Money: Why Prohibition is a Multi-Billion Dollar Business

Why is Marijuana Illegal?

Put Simply: If Marijuana is Legalized, Big Pharma Loses Profits! 

...and it makes more money as an "illegal substance."

Let’s be honest. There is no reason a substance such as marijuana should be illegal. The reason it is illegal is the same reason healthcare is privatized and prescription drug companies make a fortune from disease mongering. The reason marijuana is illegal is that it makes more money being illegal than it does if it were legal. Just think about it, it's capitalism's worst nightmare. People have the ability to grow a natural medication in their backyard. Making marijuana illegal not only reduces other, often less effective drug sales but also eliminates whole industries that make large exurbanite profits. If illicit drugs were to become legal, that would shrink the courts, the amount of police, the criminal justice system, and the prison system. These are huge industries that make billions and employ many workers. 

The legality of marijuana is about the ability to grow your own medicine in your backyard without the fear of persecution from corrupt and backward laws. The fact is, marijuana, regardless of hemp, which has non-psychedelic effects and real-world textile and industrial utility, is a medical remedy for many diseases and ailments sick Americans deal with on a daily basis.  

The problem is now that the system is entrenched. The last thing big pharma and the drug manufacturers want is a readily available drug that citizens can grow in their backyard without consuming their product. The drug industry is a trillion-dollar market, and they lobby accordingly throughout the legislature. 

Although the American government has long since acknowledged the medical benefit of marijuana, it is still criminalized, ruins more lives than the drug, and congests the legal system with a problem that has only been created through propaganda and ignorance. Marijuana prohibition does more aggregate harm to society than the legalization and decriminalization, and many law enforcement leaders would agree with this paragraph!  

"If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls of those who live under tyranny." - Thomas Jefferson, 1784

 

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