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#2 the government makes far too much $$ with it being illegal, if it were legal people would grow it and the govt. would lose out on the $$
Please explain that one 
That shouldn't be too hard to do...think about it. There isn't a law enforcement agency in this country that would not lose out on a lot of revenue if pot were legalized. Truth be told, there are a whole lot of law enforcement officers that did or do smoke the stuff themselves, and if ever pressed on the subject would tell you in a heartbeat that pot would be better legalized than beer or hard liquor.
Should have been legalized long ago, if only we as a people were not so weak and have not done enough to demand it. Again - a low priority, so nobody is going to go to the wall for it and risk everything else they own to fight for it. Makes me wonder what if Prohibition were to happen again (it won't) - what kind of priority would that be today? And how on Earth would we justify that?
The police do not make the laws. Legislators do, at both the state and federal level. The states and the feds spend billions trying to stop drugs and get only a tiny fraction of that back in fines and seized cash. Spending a dollar to reap a dime does not make financial sense. There may be sound reasons to keep them illegal but a financial windfall is not one of them.
And like everyone else, I had a thing for Mary Ann (or should that be Mary Jane) when I was a youngun. 
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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