text: why is marijauana illegal?   mass producing alcohol descreatly is nearly impossibly so its easy to tax. pot grows anywhere & the yield is so high that the only way to cash in on it is legality. look at who gets paid; growers, transporters, wholesalers & retailers. thats alot of jobs created & the money made is good for the economy. but wait, theres more! who also gets paid; lawyers, courts, county, federal subsidies(taxes)(goes to cops, survailance, cop cars, ect.), all the court ordered programs, jails & prisons. its the greatest cash crop ever (besides war).  court ordered programs: all government offices are alotted money for the year. if they use it all, they get more next year & so on. as long as they can stuff warm bodies into these programs, theyll get more money. taxes will never dry up as long as they can steal it outa your check before you get it. prisons: the unit i was in is an agriculture unit. we grew okra, cabbage, peas, & corn. orange unit down the way was a packaging unit. styles unit is steel fabrication that makes the buildings we (inmates) are stored in. fregison was a textile unit. we are a self preservation society. get it. look up tci on the stock market. stands for 'texas correctional industries. we are a workforce that houses, feeds, clothes & maintains ourselves while producing free world goods. never believe that bullsht that it costs tens of thousands per inmate per year. prisons are money makers.