Legalizing drugs while 90 million are unemployed will spike crime rates.
Drug cartels will not go away.
Legal marijuana is “let them eat cake” to pacify the masses and take their minds off their troubles.
They'll be deprived of easy big profits just as rumrunners were when Prohibition ended:
"The lush traffic in alcohol beverages during the violent years of 1920 to 1933 had laid the base of organization for a number of criminal gangs. The termination of the ban on liquor deprived these gangs of their most lucrative source of money" - Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce