The only reason weed is illegal in the U.S. is because a tiny minority of ultra-religious, racist people with lots of money lobbied for it back in the 1930's. It's quite sad actually. Marijuana is classified as a schedule 1 drug by the FDA in the U.S. which basically puts it in the same category with hard core drugs like Methanphetamines,Morphine, Mescaline, and Heroine.
Wow. If they classify weed as a "schedule 1 drug", they should classify beer as a "schedule 1 drug" too, as it's effects are far worse in my opinion.
Over here, we classify in two categories:
* soft drugs (canabis, mushrooms, absynt and that weird new shit from the amazone)
* hard drugs (XTC, cocaine, heroine, etc.)
Ironically, one of our major export product is a hard drug.