Post #45 reveals why you are naive. You want to give the keys to the City away to the mob? Oh you don’t think that will happen? You are more than naive, you are aiding and abetting the Drug Lords because legalization leads to them securing their turf. And rest assured they will put their people in power over you.
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/mccain_s_mob_connections_146.html
There is not an unlimited market for illegal drugs. Even if legalization doubled the number of users, the price of drugs would plummet to a tenth or a hundredth of the present price. If the mob doesn't have the power to dominate my life today with their present resources then there is no way they are going to be able to dominate with a fifth or a tenth of the resources.
Just how many cities are dominated by tobacco or alcohol cartels? Are the mobs in charge of alcohol sales today? Why not? I'll tell you why not. Because there isn't enough money in it.
Just what is stopping this worse case scenario that you are fearing from happening NOW? How is the illegality of many of these drugs hampering the plans of the cartels?
Today it isn't safe to enter isolated areas of the Mendocino forest because it is rife with illegal pot gardens. Who is going to be growing pot in a national forest if it becomes legal to grow it in one's own yard?