Ignorance? They aren't ignorant. They know the effects of Mary Jane and the science behind it. They are protecting their jobs. It is a political, business, and economical issue. If MJ is legalized, that will render half of the point of the DEA useless. So of course they don't want MJ legal. But don't worry. MJ will be set free eventually, because if history has shown us anything, it's that nothing can stop from the right thing happening. It's their fault for working in corrupt professions to begin with. The dominoes are falling. Are Washington and Colorado legalized, a shit ton of politicians are being more open to decriminalization and legalization. Never mind the MONEY!
It's like every week there's a politician ethering someone on marijuana, it's starting to get fucking hilarious.
And fuck Obama. He's like "well I blahblah marijauan is no worse than alcyhol" and then when pressed to take marijuana from schedule 1 he's all,"I don't have that power." Mind, this is one day - literally - after a state of the union address that said he was going to be using executive power more often. He could have used executive ordered MJ from schedule 1 yeaaaaars ago. But now he doesn't have the power. Mmm hm. Right.