It's amazing how much you would blindly trust the government.
The reason for marijuana being criminalized in 1937 was to prevent the growth of the hemp industry. Quite obviously, people representing forestry, petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries feared the enormous competition from the infant hemp industry.
Hemp is the world's strongest fiber, the oils derived from it can be turned into a bio-diesel fuel that is cleaner burning and gets more mileage than gasoline, plus of course it's replentishable. You can see why certain big industries are afraid of it.
As for not killing brain cells,
1. Dr. Christine Hartel, Acting Director of Research, National Institute of Drug Abuse, cited by the State of Hawaii Dept of Health, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division in memo of Feb. 4, 1994.
No, sorry, I'm only a "hater" as you describe because those people are breaking the law and refuse to respect the laws of my country.
What kind of reasoning is this? What's wrong with me that I would waste my time trying to shed light to someone who has their head as deep in the sand as you?
It was once illegal for women and blacks to vote, it was once illegal for blacks to share the same space as whites. I don't think anything more needs to be said.
My point is that if it wasn't an addiction, people wouldn't be fighting so hard for it.
Your simple DARE definition of "addiction" is great. If fast food were outlawed and people fought for that, is it because they are addicted? You are what you eat, and people who eat that garbage on a regular basis certainly aren't healthy, or won't be for much longer. Since we've established that fast food is both unhealthy and addictive, maybe we should classify it as a drug and make it illegal. But wait, what about alcohol, what about prescription drugs that are abused as much as alcohol? Hundred's of thousands of people are dying each year due to these legal and more importantly, acceptable substances. Especially prescription drugs, no, those certainly aren't the same as DRUGS drugs, because the doctor gives them to you. Presciption drugs that are viewed as safe, that throw you through all kinds of loops, that are in many cases made up of similar things that harder street drugs are made up of, that are supposed to treat non-existant problems that have been contrived for the purpose of making money, that treat many things that a natural herb called marijuana can treat much more effectively.
See how many double standards exist soley based on what's an accepted practice and what's not? Don't trust things to be right, just because that's how it is. It's hard for people to accept that something they thought they knew has no legitimate basis.