Maybe you're a police officer, a prison guard or a local politician. Possibly you're scared of losing employment, overtime-pay, the many kick-backs and those regular fat bribes.
Only in the bizarro world of Prohibition can we see medical experts being publicly dissed for their scientific conclusions by a complete and utter unconscionable hypocrite.
Prohibition didn't work before and it's not working now. With alcohol people could remember when it was legal. No one remembers when marijuana was legal. lEthan Nadlemann of the Drug Policy Alliance said, "It's the fear of the devil we don't know over the devil we do."