Why is Pot Illegal in america and almost everywhere else?

I thought about this for some time now and I cant get why its illegal.
Tobacco and Alcohol are legal and they are both more harmful. Pot gives influences you kind of like alcohol but you cant die of taking to much.
Is it because the state is not cashing in on taxes? I cant believe this crap. i mean it pisses me off about as much as being forbidden to drink up until 3 years after your an adult!!

A bunch of reasons.
First and foremost, the big pharmaceutical companies would NEVER allow marijuana to become legal. Can you possibly imagine all the revenue that they would lose from the sale of their drugs, since weed would be cheaper, and more effective.
Secondly, it can't be taxed, and it also cannot be regulated. It would be too easy for each household to grow their own weed, as opposed to manufacturing their own alcohol or cigarettes.
We also need some type of testing procedure, such as the breathalyzer for drivers. Blood/urine tests would take too long, and you need to see to it that drivers aren't smoking up and then driving.

But I agree with you. You have no idea how much money is being pumped into this 'war on drugs', to find grow-ops, and place completely innocent people behind bars. Money that could be used to keep actual hard drugs off the streets, or that could be used for our dismal education, or even worse excuse for 'healthcare'.
And think of all the police time and manpower that would be saved.

Mostly because the inebriating power of pot demands it be legal and controlled or illegal and banned. There wasn't a large user base when countries were deciding or it very well may have become a taxed commodity. And indeed they did try and tax it. (Marijuana Tax Act of 1937)

If Ben Franklin wanted to light up he could have, it wasn't made illegal until the nineteen thirties.

Think of the buffalo and the Indians
If you get rid of the buffalo then you get rid of te Indians
Same thing with weed
If we make weed really illegal then we can incarcerate all these dope smoking hippies that are protesting our dirty little war
It was purely political decision that nobody has the nads to acknowledge was a huge mistake and created more destruction of our social fabric then anybody thought possible

- Can't be taxed.
- Couldn't be patented.
- Now would wreck havoc.
- Misunderstandings.

Yeah. Basically it.

No one dies because of pot.
Pot is about as addictive as sugar and caffiene.
Pot is less dangerous than alcohol and tobacco.

Simple.

It can't be taxed and keeping it illegal provides a need for enforcement. That's jobs for Police, DAs, Judges, defense attorneys, etc. An entire economy is based on fighting drugs. Plus making drugs illegal keeps the price up.
Hey, I am all for lowering the drinking age to 18....with military ID. Old enough to serve, old enough to buy a beer.

simple answer

it cant be taxed