Laura and lloyd wrote:
I think legal marijuana will add another layer to police responsibility as well as adding new laws to handle the various situations. True, use/possession will be more defined and there will be fewer arrests or none for mere use or legal possession, but when this happens will be far in the future after law passage.
I think retracting the marijuana laws has more facets than those mentioned. The trade in illegal drugs is not the trade of the 60s. It's grown up tremendously and is now a corporate enterprise. Separating out marijuana from cocaine and heroine and whatever else, from a legal and police practice paradigm will be a complex business to accomplish. Whether we agree or not, there are maybe millions of jobs tied up in the war on drugs with FBI, ATF, DEA, city police, county sheriffs, on and on, seemingly forever.
What I can't see, ultimately, is how to untangle such a construction except to legalize it and tax the juice out or it.
WizardMarks, Central
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