[usurper]

I feel that harder drugs, like cocaine, heroin, meth, LSD and the like, are NOT in that same category. They completely destroy your ability to reason in short order and give you all kinds of health problems.

If you look at it from a commercial point of view, pot could be marketed sold and taxed just like alcohol or cigarettes. Harder drugs simply could not as they are widely known as dangerous and harmful substances making them at the onset defective products.

No producer could ever get the financial backing or insurance coverage necessary to bring these products to market. The product liability would be astronomical.

[a fool in paradise]

So the drug war would continue with the manufacture and smuggling of everything from cocaine to zanax to heroin to X.