What’s driving the direction of this issue is the fact that a significant number of people don’t equate drug use (particularly pot) with rape and murder...they equate it with alcohol use.
I know potheads.
That is why I am opposed to legalization.
That and the fact that we’ve had 3 generations grow up during the modern era of the drug war grow up largely ignoring it in their teens and mostly come out OK. The lies of the drug war have become pretty obvious, at least to anybody who ever actually did some drugs and didn’t get hooked or OD, which at this point is a really large percentage of the populace. Probably isn’t helping the WOD that the first generation to grow up under it have now hit senior citizen land and are regularly being prescribed stuff that makes the drugs they did for fun seem like soda.