[ovenco]

Legalizing pot is like a giant asteroid impacting the bottom line of tobacco, liquor, and big pharma companies. Lawmakers and enforcers provide reverse thrust against wider adoption by the public. If they passed a law today making it illegal to breathe air there are some people who would obediently suffocate. In fact, it would be more scientific than any poll - just order everyone to stop where they are at noon tomorrow and if they haven't paid their per-aspiration tax they drop dead. The resulting flood of PayPal income would be tribute before swine and the true bottom of the gene pool would entertain us with reality TV - "tonight on I Can't Breathe Barbara loses her AirCard and has to suck an aquarium pump to stay alive." I mean, the absurdity of destroying people's lives for marijuana is a profit center as well as a threat. With so many competing forces it's no wonder it remains a cause dejour to villify.