Because leftists like pot, taxes and regulation.
Why can’t the elimination of a government restriction (pot criminalization) be accompanied by no new government restrictions (taxes, regulation)?
Nutters can’t get freedom right.
It beats a jail cell. Unless you’re suggesting that we just suspend the laws and stop arresting people.
Here is how this will go;
The reason for doing all this is to increase State tax revenue.
The taxes are high, and the strategy will work....At first. Then the indoor hydroponics and backyard crops will start (Give it 2 years), and the untaxed weed will hit the streets and be much cheaper and as good as you can get from the stores.
Tax revenue will plummet, and the entire state-sponsored apparatus will collapse, which will lead to a re-criminalization of pot in the end.
Unintended consequences. You never see them coming until they whack you in head.