[TKDietz]

“What “legalized drug society” did you live in?”

She didn't live in a “legalized drug society” because there aren't any. The closest thing we have to that is the Netherlands where they have shops that are allowed to openly sell marijuana, and per capita marijuana use there is only about half what it is here. And of course pot isn't really legal there, it's just the government's policy to allow possession and for people to grow a few plants and to allow these shops to operate, but the shops must buy their product from the black market which of course encourages organized crime to get in the game. If it was really legal there, commercial production as well as retail sales, they wouldn't have the organized crime problem.

[Melinda]

I never said it was legal, I said their sorry form of corrupt law enforcement doesn't enforce the laws on their own. The country is a mess, and otherwise productive human beings are anesthetized on a daily basis. There's no money or incentive to help any of them, and those who don't succumb move out as soon as they are old enough to hold their own elsewhere. It is a perfect example of a social structure giving up on enforcement and having no money or will to pick up its pieces. Rec drug use is a pathetic waste of time. Where? Morocco, and I venture to say quite a few other countries in the world where tolerance of vice has crippled them.

[Melinda]

“If it was really legal there, commercial production as well as retail sales, they wouldn’t have the organized crime problem.”

Organized crime would simply disappear? Hardly.