As soon as pot is legalized, pot smokers will have to face a voracious government trying to collect as much tax money as possible as opposed to dealing with and overwhelmed police officers and a justice system that could really care less.
Asset forfeiture laws have turned some police officers into something more akin to bounty hunters, and they care very much.
a voracious government trying to collect as much tax money as possible —
Maybe the IRS should think about getting SWAT, to be ready.
Very true. And add to this an explosion in welfare and unemployment rates.
Already data is coming out of the mile-HIGH state that suggests more stoners means the obvious:
More dopers freeloading in Mom’s basement unable to pass a drug test to get a job.