So many pothead and so many people mentally addictive to Marijuana. If you legalized it, it wouldn't save any money nor would the government profit off of it. If they taxed it, no one would buy it. If it's legal people would just grow their own and sell it cheaper then what the stores are and people would still be going to Dealers. They would do exactly what they are doing now. There's no money involved.
Other people kill others, by smoking cigerettes, which rules of smoking in public is becoming a lot more illegal these days. The last thing we need is people who smoke to get others who don't wanna be high, high, because they want to smoke around other people.
Why don't they legalize it? There is NO beneifical purpose to marijuana, to the common person. If you wanna get technical with medical marijuana and such, there is other methods out there to cure and help out those same diseases. Medical marijuana is just an argument, that most potheads will come up with because they think it makes you healthy. Every single drug in the world, has a side effect. Short term or long term, it effects others differently. Marijuana is no different. In fact marijuana, is harmful. Just because it isn't a hard drug like cocaine, crack, and meth, does not mean it's any less harmful to you.
There is hundreds upon many diseases, short term and long term that marijuana can cause. From cancer to Brain Damages.
The last thing we need is something legalized with no purpose other then to make people "feel good" and cause other to inhale the harmful smoke. If they don't allow people to really smoke cigerettes anywhere because it can kill people who do not want to inhale the toxins, what makes you think marijuana would be any more accepted being smoked while driving, eating at restraunts, in your own house with family members, in public places, or even on the streets. Those toxins float through the air you know.