I just found this piece:
"For example, consider what might result from the legalization of "medical marijuana" -- clearly the will of the people in at least six states. The herb would instantly fall under drastic new regulations from "Above" (the AMA, the courts, insurance companies, etc.). Monsanto would probably acquire the DNA patents and "intellectual ownership" of the plant's genetic structure. Laws would probably be tightened against illegal marijuana for "recreational uses." Smokers would be defined (by law) as "sick." As a commodity, Cannabis would soon be denatured like other legal psychotropics such as coffee, tobacco, or chocolate." Legalisation would bring it totally under government control, which is the same as giving corporations free reign to make "medicines" out it which health care official's prescribe to the "sick". (According to this article) So were does that leave us?
Legalising drugs bring it under government and corporation control. It would NOT give us individual freedom to use what we want. It would give corporations the right to research it and sell it after which doctors are allowed to prescribe 'medications' to the needy. Therefor the war on drugs, on the one hand fought by intelligence agencies controlling the traffic, and on the other hand LE judicial and prison institutions processing and bringing together certain segments of the population in order to intensify the situation. The effect of which is controlled and monitored increase of drug related crime and addiction rates which lead to a public outcry for legalization. So in a way we are being manipulated into demanding to be medicated. Not seeing it is caused by the very same conditions the govrrnment has created and fostered since the 1900's when farmaceutical companies first discovered the beneficial effects of certain drug's: addiction profit and control. War of minds. As long as we are blind to this reality, as long as we demand giving control to the government and corporations of the drugs they have created and dispersed throughout the century, we will never be able to reclaim our freedom. So yeah, I'm against legalization. Let us regulate our own market without government control and manipulations.
I hope you realize those things are not mutually exclusive. The gov't giving monopolistic control to a few firms is wrong, but for entirely different reasons than weed being illegal. the rest of what you mention is pretty much just speculation.
Your assertion that having MJ remain illegal leads to a better quality marketplace is pure fallacy. Black markets introduce crime and eliminate accountability. how is getting weed from a large domestic producer regulated for safety in any way worse than from a sketchy illicit vendor with no laws or accountability?
that's like saying buying guns from a corporate manufacturer is wrong because guns are marketed for pleasure when they're lethal, then turning around and saying that buying a gun on the black market is great because you were never advertised to about it and its therefore totally your choice.