marijuana is a PLANT that has been around longer then all of us. marijuana was made illegal due to racist profiling and lies. with marijuana comes hemp, hemp is one of or maybe the most useful material known to man. anything and literally anything can be produced from hemp. the man who caused marijuana to be illegal did it for greed. he owned a paper factory and knew hemp would be a better idea for making paper, and that would mean loss of money for him and his buisness. so he and his connections did everything they could to make this PLANT look terrible. racial profiling against mexicans and africans were made to make the over powering nieve white society against it. thats what brings it to be illegal. marijuana kills cancer cells, helps gloccoma and many other medical patients. more than fifty percent 50% of the country uses and thats not including the ones who would use if it were made legal. if the problem is abuse, then why isn't alcohol, cigs and painkillers illegal? if the problem is regulating it, you can't regulate it now so might as well make money off of it. do it like tabacco. if people grow it, then find them like you find them now. the economy needs to at least try this. we are falling fast and need to try new things. I know this would bring us out of the hole we are in as a country. jobs, enviroment, industry all need this product. this is the most useful product the country has and by legalizing it would help everything and everyone. just think of the trees that would be still standing if hemp was being used. think of the oxygen that marijuana would put back into the atmosphere. its time to recognize and stop being stubborn. we're in a recession, give it a couple years to prove my words and millions of other american words right. then the congress can take the credit for it.