Where I live they just discovered a cave containing allegedly £1,000,000 worth of cannabis plants. It is a deprived area. The last thing it needed was the state coming along and closing down perhaps its only £1,000,000 industry.
The plethora of products that can come from hemp is enough to solve all of the employment issues. The last 30 years+ of history has been a living example of what happens if you make something illegal based on lies and fear. Worse things move in to take a balanced thing's place. All hell breaks loose and it takes a messiah to bring it up from those dumps. I'd run for president if that dumb-ass age 44 requirement wasn't there. What's up with that anyway? Isn't the majority rule supposed to be based on the majority of opinions, not the majority average age?
I think of the presidency as more of a figurehead- literally a precedent if you will, of an ideal American Family at each given election. Nothing more, nothing less. He just signs off on the plans that his advisers bring him, if he be a good President setting an excellent precedent, he doesn't change it much, just double checks it for conflicts of morality and other issues.
Sorry, rambled a bit. My point is, if "Equality, Freedom, therefore Pursuit of Happiness" is the rule, then nothing can ever be made illegal, period. After all, it's not the US government that made these things illegal, but an exterior entity. Obviously DEA does not know "The Way", or they do and they're just playing at the darker side of truth. One or the other.