Originally Posted by Glice

No, there's good reasons for all drugs that are illegal being illegal, they're just not consistent with the ones that aren't illegal.

To join in with the tone of shit arguments - think about it.

Alcohol is part of a religious sacrement of certain countries; those countries have defined and dominated Western society, Western capitalism, for aeons. Alcohol formed a quintessential part of many early economies. And not merely as falling down water, as an early anaesthetic and, anthroplogically, a means of sanitising drinking water. There's studies which suggest that East-Asian countries sanitised water by decanting it; Western Europe made booze.

Something with that history might not have a rational reason for being legal now, but it has, for as long as written history in the West, so far as I can tell, been a large part of our society.

As soon as a religion with weed as its religious sacrement (some forms of Rastafari) gets a nation state, or a reasonably large enough territory, I'd be surprised if weed wasn't legalised, but it's going to be a scant occurence otherwise.