> Mj prohibition is ultimately racially and politically motivated On the other side of the equation, there's also the (much more charitable) point that we trie

> Mj prohibition is ultimately racially and politically motivated On the other side of the equation, there's also the (much more charitable) point that we tried banning alcohol and it didn't work. It has a substantially larger cultural purchase, so banning it is naturally more expensive -- both in terms of the cost of enforcement and the number of upset people whose habits you've made illegal. Marijuana might become impossible to ban if its use keeps climbing, but it certainly wasn't in the 20th century.