“Doesn’t seem like trying to control that worked too well.”
Honestly, if you think trying to control it didn’t work out too well... legalizing it has been way worse. In the ‘80s, in California when they were still busting pot growers and dealers I only rarely smelled on public streets. Now you can’t walk down the street in San Francisco without finding yourself in a cloud of marijuana smoke, as the ubiquitous street/homeless people toke outside all day long while the leftist apartment dwellers wake and bake with their windows open in most residential neighborhoods. And all the revenue it was going to make for the state, per drug-pusher-in-chief Gavin Newsom? That money never materialized as the blackmarket untaxed growers dealers have undercut the legal market
Ignore them. They’re rationalizing the vices they’ve chosen to abuse. Like the post, “..if you stop smoking you’ll start eating more (and become obese which will also kill you so why not just keep smoking cause that’s what I’m doing........)