[SampleMan]

I meant to address this question for general discussion. My apologies for double posting.

For those who advocate legalization on practical grounds, NOT constitutional grounds, what outcome of legalization would constitute a failure in your book?

[Tolsti]

I'll tell you what they want. To be able to get high easier without legal hassles and for cheaper. QED.

[Turbopilot]

Since you addressed the question for general discussion, I'll give you what I would view as a failure:

Police still being able to conduct no-knock SWAT raids on what may or may not be the right house to make a marijuana bust. Young people still getting convictions that prevent them from getting student loans or joining the military. Street dealers still financing criminal enterprises through obscene profits, and selling unknown green substances that could be anything from oregano to poison. Billions of tax dollars still spent to locate, arrest, process, prosecute, and incarcerate people for buying or using marijuana. People still being killed over marijuana, or marijuana profits.

If marijuana were legal to produce, sell, buy, and consume, and those things still occurred, that legalization would have been a failure from a practical perspective, in my opinion.