Ron Paul vs. Stephen Baldwin on Marijuana Legalization

This video is from the Larry King show, where Ron Paul, the libertarian Republican congressman and presidential candidate debates neo-con actor Stephen Baldwin on the issue of legalizing marijuana.

It’s hard to think of an issue that more blatantly exposes the failure and absurdity of the war on drugs. As Ron Paul points out, the war on drugs is similar to the prohibition on alcohol, which resulted in organized crime controlling that industry.
Marijuana would be very inexpensive without the laws against it, so the only people who profit from prohibition are drug dealers and the prison industry.

To me, the idea of making something that grows in nature illegal is inherently ridiculous, and reveals the basically artificial and arbitrary nature of governments and laws in general.