bottom line illinois makes much more money having it ilegle then they would if they legalized.....
If someone were to argue that Illinois would only break even (on job creation and revenue generation) on legalizing cannabis, I MIGHT concede to that. But all the numbers I've EVER seen are in favor of cannabis being legalized. The money spent on the "war on drugs" is horrendous and the money made from income taxes for dispensaries would be one plus and once they figure out how to tax the plant itself, dispensary owners will not ask if they have to bend over. They will bust out the lube and ask how far would you like to stick it in. This is legal frickin' drug dealing man! Pharmaceutical companies are swimming in money for a reason.
It is not legal because yet because it is not popular and it is close to election time. After several generations of brain washing the public into thinking it is a horrible thing so they COULD make some extra money, now they have to do an about-face and let the stick up the ass conservatives on this topic smell the new money that can be made and how it is not really going to affect society any more negatively than it already has.