The government isn't terrified - the police-industrial complex is too lucrative and powerful for them to break a sweat. They'll medicinally legalize it for this purpose eventually, when their corporate partners have found a good way to mirror the treatment path in a patentable product, and still make a literal killing on the drugs they already approved. The state is the organized crime that runs back millennia - they're not scared of a plant. They just know it's more profitable illegal. After all, it being illegal promotes the gang culture and warfare that allows them to justify militarily policing the streets, and global drug dealers mean that a war on drugs is just as international as a war on terror. It isn't fear that keeps it illegal. It's peoples' faith in government, and the self-serving violence of the state that has criminalized this plant. Never forget that.
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