When there were 'decent' high-school-diploma-and-less JOBS on the market, such as the one my daddy had that provided for a stay-at-home mommy and 2 kids with decent food, a mortgage on a decent house, a new car every 7-10 years... you know,  when a good old average Joe could get his elbows dirty and actually have something nice to show for it and it was proportional to the  productivity that was coming out of Canadian & American manufacturing... well... Weed was more than illegal it was vilified. I don't think it's an unrelated coincidence that as the prospects for attaining the 'AMERICAN DREAM' are... vaporizing, hehehe - we see governments scramble to relax Weed laws. When you can't get your hands on the 'real thing,' you'd better be able to get your hands on that thing(s) that promotes contentedness despite not being able to get your hands on the 'real thing,' and now that even college grads face crap jobs & little upward mobility, Weed is on the table now to quell revolution...