Lemme say it again:
I'm VERY tempted to say "IT'S A DEAL!"...but I can't, 'cuz I'm not asking you to join our side. We live in different states, so feel free to fight as tough a Drug War in Illinois as you wish.
But I live in Arkansas. I am not under your state's jurisdiction, & the federal government has no rught to interfere. All I am asking you to do is STOP having the feds stick its nose into an issue that the 9th & 10th Amendments have left w/ the states. Simple enuff???
Well yeah they do.
You legalize drugs in Arkansas, and those drugs will show up across the state border in Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Tennessee, and Louisiana. Those states are entitled to government assistance in keeping out your drugs. How much will that cost? Or don't you care?
Shouldn't those states have a say? Shouldn't all the states be allowed to vote on whether to return the power to regulate drugs back to the states? As they did with alcohol and the 21st amendment?