Bullllllshit. The only reason these are popular views is because of government mandated propaganda programs and misinformation campaigns. Don't give the politicians such a huge massive benefit of the doubt, "Oh they are just doing what the people want!", that is exactly what they fucking want you to believe. When they made marijuana illegal it was most commonly known as cannabis and the average people knew about it by that name and didn't think it was a big deal, so out comes the government calling it marijuana but never cannabis and propaganda is released making it out to be some devil drug from Mexico poisoning their children, and suddenly the people who know that cannabis is not a bad drug are freaking out over this marijuana shit. That is the perfect illustration of how the government makes popular opinion, and then they make laws regarding popular opinion but they act like oh we are just doing what the people want, BULLSHIT they are making the people want what they want them to want! The politicians ARE forcing their own views on an unsuspecting population. Hold the people accountable who need to be held accountable, don't push the responsibility off onto the people who they brainwashed.