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Those are creations of the War On Drugs; legalize, and they'll be as common as hidden alcohol stills.

So you say.

So history says - stills were common when the mind-altering drug alcohol was illegal and became rare when it was legalized. Conservatives learn from history ... liberals cling to utopian fantasies (like a drug-free society).

alcohol can be used without impairment of mental ability and judgment

But is very often used otherwise.

while such impairment is the whole purpose of drug use.

Such impairment was the whole purpose of alcohol use when that mind-altering drug was illegal. (Or do you think many patrons of illegal speakeasies were there only to drink ceremonial toasts?)

So no I don't favor returning to the Prohibition Era.

Nor should you favor our current drug prohibition, which is having all the negative effects that alcohol Prohibition did.

The “Only for medicinal use with a doctor's recommendation” rule has in fact made pot available to anyone who wants it and has the price.

So long as suppliers don't have to compete in an open legal market - as they still don't in California - prices will remain hyperinflated and profits restricted to criminal hands, fueling crime by both sellers and addicted users.

Legalization didn't end bootlegging since the heavy tax on booze made the legal alcohol far more expensive than the boot leg kind. What killed most stills was a superior commercial product since many of the stills were just making sugar whiskey contaminated with wood alcohol and fusal oil. That plus the tax man.

Most illegal alcohol during prohibition came from Canada and what didn't was garbage and poisonous.

“Conservatives learn from history ... liberals cling to utopian fantasies (like a drug-free society).”

Then you think it is the moral conservatives that want relaxation of drug laws and the liberals oppose drug use?