It’s not about whether or not marijuana should be illegal.
THEY ARE REMOVING SOME OF THE POWER FROM THESE HORRIBLE ILLEGAL THUGS! I say yay!
As the oil supply shrinks, are the oil companies suffering? I think not, and neither are the drug dealers, for the same basic reasons of supply and demand. Their competitors in the region will be laughing all the way to the bank in the wake of this raid, and nothing else will change.
It’s sad to see that the “slippery slope” argument still has so many diehard adherents. Our federal government has held an arbitrary line between legal alcohol/nicotine and illegal marijuana for the better part of a century, despite the overwhelming evidence that both alcohol and nicotine are more addictive, more intoxicating (in alcohol’s case), and almost infinitely more toxic than marijuana. How slippery can the slope possibly be?
I propose a slippery-slope experiment of a different sort: if marijuana prohibition is working so well, why not try prohibiting alcohol? I don’t see what could possibly go wrong.