He also realizes that since the other 49 still ban it, Colorado gets unwanted attention. It has now become the Las Vegas of pot, the Sin State.
In all the brouhaha, it hardly gets any consideration whether America should have even tried to cork the bottle of drug abuse in this fashion. It tried to cork the bottle of alcohol abuse like that and ultimately admitted failure. Then shortly afterwards, Alcoholics Anonymous came on the scene and showed the world what doctors had been considering impossible — you can leave the bottle that bit you, after all. Incidentally, AA began with explicit Jesus Christ not some nebulous higher power. That always works a lot better!
I’ve seen what God can do through love that He couldn’t do through punishment. If God only wanted people to go to hell, He wouldn’t have bothered with love.