What are these cops going to do in the next 5 years when dopers have legal hash chocolate bars?
At the risk of answering a rhetorical question, and a good one at that:
Alcohol is currently a ‘get them coming and going’ intoxicant in terms of the state confiscating property (taxes/fines) when you buy it and when they decide when/where/how much you are allowed to have, changing the rules arbitrarily, enforcing overzealously, etc.
Cannabis is currently the darling of government because it’s opened up a new vein of taxation. The anti-prohibition crowd thinks this is just ducky. But anti-prohibitionists are going to get a rude awakening when, down the road, the problems caused by all the pot consumption arise. The state will once again overstep its bounds and claim it must pay for treatment programs etc. It will observe the law on legal possession, purchase, sale, etc. but will be happy to crank up the same old harassment, checkpoint, snooping routine for pot.