Weed's Social Political Implications

Poor misguided hippies. Spewing their misinformed political views on marijuana and it's social impacts. "It's not hurting anyone" they say, whether the cognitive association part of a stoner's brain is being severely retarded or they just don't care about anything other than themselves.

Drugs indeed hurt people, let's take marijuana for example, it is owned and operated by organized crime. Hippies advocate distrust in the greedy government and big businesses and do drugs because it's a natural none conformist way of living that doesn't hurt anyone. From my point of view, doing drugs is effectively funding the organized crime world, who in turn use the profits from drug sales to fund even worse crimes. Buying guns and weapons.

But could any other outcome have come from the governments war on marijuana? They've been funding the anti-weed war since the beginning of the 1900's, pouring billions into the propaganda with little to no victory to show for it. Of course organized crime found and exploited the market of marijuana, just look at the history of the alcohol prohibition, the crime syndicates bootlegged booze and made a fortune from the illegal activities. While citizens are being prosecuted for drug use and unable to acquire the substance from anywhere other than the criminals, the criminal community will continue to profit from drug operations. The war on drugs has not worked and perhaps needs a new method of operation.

Sure, the government could simply legalize the weed, certified corporations would  take over the market and run the crime syndicates out of the industry in a matter of months. And under the government regulations of the new drug industry, the government will be able to collect a fortune in taxes, special fees and all the other benefits of capitalism. Adopting the legal practices of some countries around the world that legalize marijuana, treating it similar to alcohol, with age limits, volume regulations, location usage, public decency, etc. It might work, it might be worth review by government officials and law makers. Perhaps in a way the medicinal practices are already a step in this direction, however I've heard a lot about doctors giving prescriptions to just about anyone without a legitimate medical reason, but that might just be a bunch of nonsense.