Quote Originally Posted by TheGreatSocrates View Post
One topic that no one has addressed is the economy. Marijuana posses a violent threat to many other products that basically run the global economy. To make it legal would require billions of dollars spent lobbying the senators and Reps that are backed by the paper companies, the pharmaceutical company's and others that contribute a huge percentage to their reelection. If they were to suddenly legalize it, there would be a multitude of new products that would effectively annihilate other products from the market.
So basically you're saying that the government is artificially altering what succeeds in the market so that things that make less sense end up winning out. This will fix that. Sounds like a pretty good thing that should have happened awhile ago.

As for the government "admitting that it was wrong." I think a lot more people have a bigger problem with the government's LACK of willingness to admit that it gets things wrong. It would be a nice breath of fresh air. Very rarely does the government make any steps to let us have more control of our own lives though instead of the extremely common practice of intruding into our lives more and more; I'd be really surprised if this happens anytime soon.