I am asking what YOU think the government should do. You are concerned, after all, about the harm done by drugs. Booze does a lot more harm that pot. It does more harm than all illegal drugs put together. So why then are you not calling for it to be illegal?
They DO want pot illegal.
Really. Then why do so many state medical marijauna initiative pass, only to get thwarted by the feds?
I've stated numerous times on this forum that no one has been able to give me one good reason why marijuana should be legalized.
Only in your opinion. There are plenty of good reasons, such as the fact that it is less harmful than the legal drug alcohol and making it legal would free up law enforcement resources to go after actual hard drug problems.
But you don't care to hear it.
About alcohol? Nothing different than they're doing now.
"So why then are you not calling for it to be illegal?"
Because I'm a pragmatic person.
"Really. Then why do so many state medical marijauna initiative pass, only to get thwarted by the feds"
All but two of the medical marijuana initiatives passed by public referendum, not the state legislature -- a process that tpaine has called "mob rule". These initiatives represented the will of maybe 10% of the citizens of the state, motivated and organized to vote for it.
The will of that small minority is thwarted by the will of the national majority, speaking through the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution, saying that federal law trumps state law.
"There are plenty of good reasons"
There are plenty of reasons, none good enough to cause me to actually go out and vote for it. And unless you can convince 51% of the voters to do just that, it ain't gonna happen.