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http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/Global_Marijuana_March_2011

Now... there's something I never came to understand why is it forbidden in the first place...

Me neither, but I am damn glad this post didn't get any replies.

I don't want a bunch of stoners in charge of creating the currency of the future ;)

Woah woah, so much hate and misinformation in here!

@BCE: The reasons for Cannabis' illegality is actually plethora! All the way from J. Anslinger using  racist shock  and  propaganda in 1927 to the big lobbying interests in the government today, all the way from pharmaceutical industries, paper industries and many other groups with vested interest in not only keeping it's recreational use illegal but its industrial applications as well.

You ask yourself, "why is it illegal today?" well, ask yourself, why was alcohol prohibition started in the first place?

@GIGA: You deride "stoners" as if the entire group is bad people, do we judge all groups because of the bad apples?. Yes, some  people are criminals and use drugs, but some as astro-physicists, mathematicians, chemists, teachers, and there are even law-abiding-tax-paying citizens of the countries that prohibit cannabis use(even if using cannabis recreationaly is breaking the law in the first place).

Deciding whether or not putting things inside your body should not be a job of the state especially when it harms no one, not even yourself.

right on Third Way

i lol'd

That's really the only argument I've heard against bitcoin anyways, that it'll be used by crazy drug cartels.

stoner hippies =/= drug cartels

Did you know Euros and American dollars and British pounds are also used in the drug trade?

I hear that Brazilian Real, Russian Rubles, Japanese Yens, India Rupiahs along with <put the currency here> are also used by them  ;D