[MHGinTN]

CA should be the ‘test case’; legalize everything in the way of drugs and behavior, tax it all, and see it the population shrinks noticeably. Bwahahahaha, those not killed or ruined in the rush to licentiousness will move asap to save their children. Ahnold can probably be re-elected then by the survivors. An added benefit will be the demise of so many of the hollywierd moonbats. And the nation's obsequious politicians will have hard evidence to pour over before doing the same to the rest of the nation. [Which reminds me, why is it that we oppose Massatwoshits when they want to become the most licentious state in the union? Shouldn't we allow the Darwin prerogative to take effect?]

[TKDietz]

I don't think it would be a good idea to legalize everything, but I do think it would be a good idea to legalize pot. We couldn't make it much more available if we tried. I truly don't believe there are very many people who want to smoke pot but don't just because it is illegal. It's pretty darned close to being legal in California anyway. In the unlikely event someone gets caught they get a ticket and have to pay a small fine, and a lot of them have medical marijuana cards and don't even have to worry about the fine. They can grow their own or go to the pot store and buy it. They're tougher on marijuana in my state but we aren't stopping anyone from smoking it and they darned sure aren't stopping anyone in California. It's a multibillion dollar business that is enriching organized crime to the tune of many billions a year. The ban on pot is a huge waste of money and other resources that pits a significant portion of our population against law enforcement and gets them used to breaking the law eroding respect for the rule of law in general. We are causing a lot more harm than good trying in vain to keep up this ban and we ought to just legalize it and regulate it and tax it and go on.

Those Mexican drug trafficking organization, they'd shrink down to something far less powerful and far less of a threat. They already supply almost all the cocaine, meth and heroin in this country. It's not like there is much of that business left for them to take over. Marijuana provides them better than 60% of their income according to our government, and the marijuana trade with it's vast distribution networks that reach every corner of America makes it easy for them to move those other drugs because they just piggy back them in on top of the marijuana and push them through some of the people selling their marijuana. If we take the pot business from them they'll lose their biggest money maker and it will be harder for them to move their other drugs. We should have legalized marijuana a long time ago.