@kaylinart your quote: “Whenever there is a huge financial benefit with something, the government wants to take it away”.
As for governments, what we see as a huge financial benefit for them, they see as implementation cost. I don’t believe they want to disregard any financial benefits from the distribution of medicinal marijuana, but at what cost? For all the war on (marijuana) drugs, I am willing to bet the financial rewards outweigh what distribution would provide in taxes. The issue becomes moral, and governments lack that quality.
I live in Canada and we live quite free, but we have an elephant as a neighbor who doesn’t quite like the slim fashions we have become accustomed to. Help us build a wall to keep the elephant happy.