Motives vary among legalization proponents but our concerns overlap.
Although we would butt heads with the right-wingers on personal freedom issues, very few people want their taxes squandered on policies that increase their chances of being robbed or shot and diminish their rights while doing nothing to reduce drug use. We don't have to agree upon the merits or evils of hemp to agree that prohibition is a waste of taxes, hurts innocent people and virtually eliminates all uses of the plant except the one most Drug Warriors object to-recreational use. Although the mythology is based on fabrications, blatant untruths and disproved assumptions, most believers have sincerely felt there are valid concerns that we should not ignore. Listening is one of the best ways to ensure we will be heard. We don't have to hit them first thing with a challenge to their whole belief system about marijuana.