Why I am of two minds regarding Obama's stance on pot legislation

I know that Obama's comment at the town hall rubbed me the wrong way, but I do think that he is doing
little things like making the fed's only go after those who break federal and state law(although the feds apparently havent got the memo yet). Also the Attorney General has made some speeches that seem to go in the right direction, the only question is if Obama and his administration will quietly do little things to help end prohibition from a federal level while distancing themselves from the issue or will merely make jokes in front of the cameras about weed and pass this off to another generation. Following is a list I made about the potential benefits to legalizing weed that I think would help the economy, freedom and our standing in the world.

Regarding legalizing or decriminilizing cannabis

1. Personally this affects me the most but is considered a back burner issue. However the decriminalization of cannabis or legalization especially would be the most profound in the following ways.
a. It would actually make the drug war winnable, although in a different form. Weed accounts for over 60% of illegal drug use worldwide and nationwide over recent decades according to most of the literature I have read. Most people get their first contact with other drugs because they will go through a dealer who also sells cannabis. I would go so far as to say in my opinion that if weed were legal (not just decriminalized) then it would not only eliminate itself but cut in more than half the availability of the other drugs, my guess is that the remaining drug problems would be meth and ecstasy with some cocaine. I know to libertarians this would seem to continue to deny people what would seem to be their civil rights and pursuit of happiness by touching only cannabis, however it would hopefully also involve lesser sentencing and more realistic laws covering all drugs. It would however give us a new revenue being taxes on cannabis, probably decrease by 50% the availability of other drugs, decrease money spent on prisons and prisoner maintenance by billions, take away all the wasted money spent by the government in advertising for the drug war and take away about 60% of public counseling money with the remaining for meth use and alcohol and tobacco as well as weed and prescription drug counseling, less law enforcement for border patrols but more for developing a way to determine if someone is currently stoned as it were with some appropriate punishment when this is combined with driving or some jobs using heavy equipment-note this is to determine if someone is stoned and much like a breathalyzer sees how drunk one currently is and not for the last 30 days like a piss test does which I always though was unconstitutional. One incalculable positive effect would be to give some sense of honesty to the US governments case. I think that this combined with our harsher treatment of cigarette manufacturers (finally classifying it as a drug under the FDA would be nice) and alcohol use and abuse would be nice to see.
b. Other non-monetary benefits of this would be to bring the US more into line with Canada, Caribbean (at least informally), South America, Mexico, Britain, France, Spain, Italy till lately, most of Europe where cannabis laws have been becoming more tolerant over recent years with money being wasted by the US as well as soft power to keep them in line with US policy founded decades ago on hypocrisy, racism, paranoia, corporatism, fascism and lies. Imagine what this would do to South America with our current imperialism telling them what they can and can’t do and how we spend our money and hurt them through the Contras and Columbian military and all the smuggling and all the needless crime caused by unjust laws that could give them a legitimate export as well as take away from the US black market that currently fuels much of their crime.
c. Take all the money away from useless police enforcement on this non-crime freeing them to do their jobs on more important issues, less prisoners by millions if I am not mistaken and everything that entails from lost college and work opportunities to crime to lost voting rights and more respect for police and I could probably go on. All the money from this US top crop being taxed and the money being in the legitimate instead of black markets.
d. probably take some money away from other industries in small amounts like tobacco, alcohol, prescription drug industries who don’t incorporate into the new market namely weed, other cross effects from a renewed hemp industry such as cloth and rope and paper just for starters. However none of these industries will go out of business. These companies wont keep spending 100’s of millions anymore to keep their status quo and the war on some drugs and the government wont keep supporting the prescription drug industry as heavily hopefully(and hold them to a higher standard that incidentally weed would easily pass better than many presciption drugs), and maybe we can take out any government support for tobacco growers as well and tax cigarettes even more-I guess you can see where my priorities are. In fact, lets make cigarette use almost as hard as weed use (coffee houses and home for weed, current status quo for cigarettes maybe similar to Canada) and I would be happy. I guess my point of view is that the harm a drug does to society must be taken into account regarding the laws on it’s use, hence my views on weed. Finally to see people who enjoy weed like the late Carl Sagan or Willie Nelson or have used like Barrack Obama or Michael Phelps to be seen as normal people and not habitual criminals.

The US Government needs to STOP THE WAR against its own citizens.

I am tired of being thought of as the enemy. I am not the enemy.